AI Ethics

Welcome to this weekly series exploring technology's profound impact on humanity. Here we examine critical issues including AI ethics, copyright law, and the influence of big tech and social media. Get vital insights into navigating our increasingly digital world.

AI's Neutrino Burst

Can the white hot hype sustain its burn rate?

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Is It Stealing to Write With AI?

It’s a question being asked with increasing frequency, in tones ranging from quiet skepticism to outright indignation.

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When Billionaires Build Bunkers

Paul Tudor Jones is not an alarmist. He’s a billionaire hedge fund manager that says AI presents an immediate threat to human safety.

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Oh Good, the VCs Will Survive

The more a job relies on ambiguity the safer it is.

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They'll All Be Working For You Someday

2025: the year the Frontier Firm is born.

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Is AI Bad for the Environment?

As it turns out, even fiction has a carbon footprint.

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Meta Has Your Words

Meta is being sued by authors for using pirated versions of their books, and Zuck's not denying it.

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Coding Isn’t Dead—It’s Evolving

In the flood of headlines about AI replacing jobs, it isn’t only writers who find themselves in the crosshairs.

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The Machines Have Passed—Or Did We Fail?

One of OpenAI’s newest language models, GPT-4.5, was able to fool human judges into thinking it was a person.

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When Robots Start Emailing Other Robots

You lose your job not because you were underperforming, but because of Agentic AI.

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The Digital Afterlife

In today’s landscape, a writer’s words don’t just disappear. They’re scraped and indexed to train the very systems that may replace them.

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Can You Tell When a Story Was Written by AI?

Lately I've been asked this question more and more--and it has become increasingly difficult to answer.

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Watching for the Wrong Danger

AI won’t arrive like an enemy—it’s already here.

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“You Shouldn’t Have Written This Book”

A reader admonished me the other day. He told me I shouldn’t have written this book. It was a warning.

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