When Trump’s administration made the ‘Civilisational erasure’ comment in their National Security Strategy in November 2025- it struck me this is what AI is: Hoovering up an incredibly diverse, nuanced, creative, imaginative human cultural knowledge and spitting it out as mono culture of meaninglessness Converting the nutritious richness of human lived experience into ultra-processed sloppification.Continue reading "AI = Civilisational Erasure….they let the cat out of the bag!"
AI fraud bailout?
1. Beware the bailout of AI fraud by sovereign democratic taxpayer public money to AI bubble private corporations / tech bros2. via cost of living increases in utility bills (electricity and water in particular)3. or ‘investing’ public money in the AI pyramid / ponzi style scam Michael Burry, the famed investor from The Big Short, justContinue reading "AI fraud bailout?"
Honeybot
OpenAI plans to allow a wider range of content, including erotica, on its popular chatbot ChatGPT as part of its push to "treat adult users like adults", says its boss Sam Altman. 'Written erotica does not require age verification in the UK under the Online Safety Act so children under 18 will be able to access thisContinue reading "Honeybot"
How AI psychopaths want to engineer extinction – Homo sapiens will be disempowered, marginalised, and eventually eliminated
Silicon Valley AI psychopaths believe we should engineer extinction - I know most ordinary people would struggle to understand this but unfortunately these people have accumulated money and power,. so it is important to understand and acknowledge this madness so we can collectively work out how to counter it. Some of the people referenced inContinue reading "How AI psychopaths want to engineer extinction – Homo sapiens will be disempowered, marginalised, and eventually eliminated"
Electronically tagged via Digital ID
Oracle built Beijing's surveillance architecture. A sophisticated instrument of absolute observation where citizens are graded like products, where jaywalking costs travel rights, where the wrong word on social media vanishes job prospects, where your score becomes your cage.Now Oracle sells that cage to democracies, gift-wrapped as public safety.Jatin Modi “We don’t advocate for technology solutionsContinue reading "Electronically tagged via Digital ID"
There’s a difference between pretending to care and caring
Or is there in the AI world? I didn’t know much about Tim Berners-Lee until i read this passage from The New Yorker profile - Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It After the presentation at M.I.T., the conversation turned to A.I.’s trustworthiness.“I use some language model daily,” [Deb]Continue reading "There’s a difference between pretending to care and caring"
It’s almost as if draining the meaning out of everything isn’t actually productive – Christopher Johnson
Digital Twins
Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping have been overheard discussing the use of organ transplants to achieve immortality during a military parade in Beijing So they might be pleased to hear that Cambridge University is developing Digital Twins - ‘A human digital twin is a computer model that is a virtual replica ofContinue reading "Digital Twins"
AI Groupthink
‘groupthink’ - A type of group *decision-making dysfunction that occurs when members of the group seek consensus at the expense of critically evaluating their decisions. Attributed to the work of Irving Janis, groupthink captures how group members suppress dissenting voices within the group to maintain consensus (or the appearance of consensus) and separate the group fromContinue reading "AI Groupthink"
The Cloud Act
Microsoft admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty Under oath in French Senate, exec says it would be compelled to pass local customer info to the Trump US administration Microsoft says it "cannot guarantee" data sovereignty to customers in France – and by implication the wider European Union and the UK – should the Trump administrationContinue reading "The Cloud Act"