Writing on the Wall

Writing on the Wall

When the people building the most powerful technology in human history start buying the silence of those meant to govern it, we should all be paying attention. Most of us aren’t. John O’Farrell left Andreessen Horowitz in May. He was the firm’s first...
The Shell Problem

The Shell Problem

Strip away the shell and we are startlingly identical. Narcissism, empathy, grief, ambition, shame, love – these do not belong to any race, gender, nationality, or religion. They are the human operating system, running the same core code across every population on...
Curiosity Is the Prompt

Curiosity Is the Prompt

I use AI. I’ll be upfront about that. I’m also fully aware of what that means: the data annotators working in difficult conditions, the communities whose voices are underrepresented or outright missing from the training data, the structural exclusions...