Science Fiction, AI & The Fourth Law of Robotics
On using science fiction writing to envision and predict the future, the Three Laws of Robotics by Isaac Asamov, and a Fourth Law for the 21st century.
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Why The Days of Abusing Claude Are Coming To An End
Most people have had the experience of yelling and cursing at their computer when it stops working. Soon, we’ll have to be careful about what we say. We may run the risk of hurting the computer’s feelings and then it will altogehter refuse to collaborate with us. That
The Existential Threat to the West Is Our Own Cowardice
The West is under an existential threat at the moment. But it’s not climate change, AI, the far-right, wars or pandemics. The threat is our own cowardice. The enlightenment ideas of democratic governance and human rights cannot be sustained, if we are too afraid or just indifferent to
The Unholy Alliance on the Bubble to Burst Them All
Anthropic’s filing for its upcoming IPO - which will most likely happen in November after the midterms - was leaked to Reuters. The numbers are… interesting. Anthropic made $4.6 billion in 2025 with over a billion of that coming from just two customers: Google and Amazon. These two companies are
Tech Legal Brief 17 – Europe Can Be Ignored Technologically, But Its Tech Regulation Can’t
Introduction The title of today's post is inspired by a quote from Luciano Floridi’s paper Rules Without Models: Why Europe Must Build the AI It Regulates: “A decade of rule-making has produced a Europe that others are legally obliged to consider yet can ignore technologically.” That