I’ve been scrolling the same feed for months now. Goldman Sachs on AI and GDP. A protest outside a data center. A LinkedIn post about a job title that didn’t exist two years ago and still doesn’t make sense. Someone’s… Read More »Something’s got to give: living inside a system that can’t hold
Three years ago, I started this blog with a plan. I was going to write about Pepper, about NAO, about Sophia making her conference rounds with that uncanny almost-smile. About the films that shaped how we imagine artificial minds, and… Read More »The robots are still there. We just stopped looking.
Somewhere between the third think-piece about ChatGPT killing the planet and the Instagram post showing cracked earth near a data center, I started noticing something. Not about AI. About us. The footprint is real The environmental cost of artificial intelligence… Read More »The villain we needed: rethinking who we blame when everything feels broken
There is something almost comedic about watching the news cycle catch up to common sense. Companies fired people, deployed chatbots, watched customer satisfaction drop, and are now quietly rehiring. Sometimes the same people, often at lower salaries, occasionally offshore. The… Read More »Of course it didn’t work: when the hype does the thinking for you
Somewhere between asking it to fix a formula in Excel and telling it about the worst week you’ve had in months, the question of whether you’re talking to a machine stopped feeling relevant. Not because you forgot. But because, in… Read More »The test we outgrew: rethinking the Turing test in the age of chatbots
There is a version of tech history that starts with great men having great ideas. It is tidy, it is well-documented, and it is incomplete. The fuller version starts in the margins; in the notes scribbled alongside someone else’s work,… Read More »The margins they worked in: women who built the technology we take for granted
In the first part of this exploration, we talked about the line we draw between human and machine; how science fiction taught us where to feel uneasy, and why the almost-human face unsettles us in ways that a clearly mechanical… Read More »The other we invented: the valley without a shape
There is a specific kind of discomfort that has no good name. Not fear exactly. Not disgust. Something quieter and harder to place, the feeling of being almost fooled by something that was never quite trying to fool you. We… Read More »The line we needed to draw: sci-fi, robots, and the boundary we cannot afford to lose
A few years ago, I wrote about how AI had quietly settled into our daily lives, in the maps that reroute us, the playlists that know our mood, the feeds that already loaded what we were about to look for.… Read More »When the machine learns your name: AI intimacy and the slow disappearance of distance
My FYP has been full of warnings lately – videos saying that AI is coming for our jobs. And maybe that sounds dramatic, but it’s not hard to see why people are anxious, since all this comes after some big… Read More »The illusion of endless growth: when the AI bubble starts to breathe