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 | 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 3, 2026 | Blog, Tech Bytes
Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the final appeal in Thaler v. Perlmutter. The ruling reinforced a clear principle: copyright requires human authorship. If you type a prompt and publish the untouched output, you don’t own it. It’s a...
by samfrida | Mar 2, 2026 | Blog, Tech Bytes
You’re being shaped by systems you’ll never see, built by people you’ll never meet, optimizing for outcomes you’ll never understand. And you think you’re making your own decisions. Every piece of information that reaches you has already been filtered, ranked, and...
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...
