by samfrida | May 29, 2026 | Articles, Blog, Tech Bytes
The Pope Enters the Room — and He Comes With 42,000 WordsThe most talked-about AI governance development this week did not come from a legislature or a regulatory body. On May 25, Pope Leo XIV released his first major papal teaching document, a 42,300-word...
by samfrida | May 15, 2026 | Articles, Blog
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...
by samfrida | May 14, 2026 | Articles, Blog
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...
by samfrida | Mar 7, 2026 | Articles, Blog, Tech Bytes
There is a story we are frequently told about artificial intelligence. It goes something like this: a brilliant system, trained on the sum of human knowledge, can now write your emails, summarise legal documents, explain complex medical conditions, and generate code...
by samfrida | Mar 7, 2026 | Articles, Blog, Tech Bytes
There’s a story about almond farms in California. Massive industrial operations that consumed so much water that communities across the border in Mexico started running dry. The companies made billions. The people lost their water. Then, somehow, the public...
by samfrida | Mar 1, 2026 | Articles, Tech Bytes
We are handing the most powerful tool in human history to a population that is increasingly unprepared to question what it tells them. That is not a technology problem. It is a human one. Artificial intelligence is accelerating at a pace that no policy, curriculum, or...