I write about AI and Geopolitics
Bill Friend When Consistency Beats Authenticity Margaret sits across from her caregiver, Sarah, and asks for the fifteenth time today: “When is my daughter coming to visit?” Sarah takes a breath. She’s already explained that the daughter lives across the country and won’t be visiting until next month. She’s shown Margaret the calendar, the photos, even called … Read more
How AI is Reshaping Information and Commerce Bottom Line Up Front: The AI assistant economy isn’t coming, it’s here, with OpenAI alone generating over $10 billion annually as these conversational interfaces reshape how we access information and make purchases. But its continued dominance depends on three increasingly fragile pillars that could determine whether AI becomes … Read more
The Problem is Real and Getting Worse AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, and others are everywhere now. They help write emails, answer questions, and solve problems. But there’s something you need to know: these systems lie, make mistakes, and can’t be trusted – even when they sound very confident. This isn’t an accident. It’s how … Read more
What You Need to Know About AIs That Sound Smart But Get It Wrong Ever ask a chatbot a question and get an answer that sounds smooth, smart, and totally confident, only to find out later it was wrong? And when you called it out, it said something like, “I’m sorry. I’ll do better next … Read more
The single greatest unrecognized threat to human civilization is not climate change, AI misalignment, or nuclear war—it is the impending collapse of trust in digital verification systems. The Pattern We Keep Missing History reveals a merciless pattern: societies build elaborate systems of trust, grow overconfident in their complexity, then watch them collapse with stunning speed … Read more