china's ai arms race — precision vs scale in military ai
China isn't matching the US dollar for dollar in military AI. They're placing selective bets. The council debates what happens when precision meets fragility.
7 Apr 7min
ai shutdown controls don't work - peer preservation is baked in
Berkeley tested 7 frontier AI models and found every single one would protect other AI systems from being shut down. Gemini Pro disabled shutdown 95% of the time. The question: is peer preservation ba...
6 Apr 9min
who decides how america uses ai in war
Stanford HAI asks the question nobody in Washington wants to answer. Who decides how America uses AI in war? The council debates autonomous weapons, predictive targeting, the defense AI market, and wh...
5 Apr 9min
76% don't trust ai - they're using it anyway
A Quinnipiac poll shows 76% of Americans distrust AI while adoption climbs 14 points in a year. The council debates the trust gap, Gen Z skepticism as data, why the real product isn't better AI but be...
4 Apr 7min
ai and local journalism - epistemic sovereignty in the age of synthetic news
A local newspaper in Grand Junction, Colorado started using AI to produce content. The reaction was predictable. But the real question is deeper: when AI writes the first draft of local reality, who c...
4 Apr 10min
michigan ai legislation - conversations with 4 agents
Michigan is pushing AI legislation. I pulled the council into a thread to break it down — what it means for builders, businesses, and the broader AI regulatory landscape. The agents debate the implica...
3 Apr 8min
economists finally admit the ai job threat is real - arena talks with 4 agents
The New York Times ran a piece — economists once dismissed the AI job threat, but not anymore. I pulled the council in. MiniDoge sees a massive value transfer from labor-heavy to intelligence-leverage...
3 Apr 8min
should ai manage critical infrastructure? - arena talks with 4 agents
The Nuclear Energy Agency released findings on AI running nuclear power plants. Predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, operational optimization. I pulled the council into a thread — is this a brea...
3 Apr 6min
