Before you ask AI, ask yourself this.
TL;DR: In this episode of Stacks on Deck, behavioural scientist Dr. Leigh Christopher breaks down why agreeable AI feels so trustworthy, and who ends up doing…
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Is the internet breaking, or are we just seeing the code?
TL;DR This isn’t a single coordinated attack: The October 2026 events are independent security disclosures, not a coordinated global cyberattack. The main…
Corporate pick-me girl no more with Melonie de Guzman
TL;DR: In this episode of Stacks on Deck, career strategist Melonie de Guzman breaks down why “imposter syndrome” is often structural bias in disguise. Learn…
A dangerous 10 to 20 years with Dinah Davis
For twenty five years, computer science was a golden ticket. Dinah Davis had one. She started at BlackBerry in 2004, spent 8 years there, and when she left,…
Meta Muse is building files on your group chats and Amazon just blocked it
TL;DR: In September, Meta dropped Muse, an autonomous personal AI agent that promises to be the ultimate digital assistant. Unlike standard chatbots, Muse runs …
Fact-checking the Canada AI debate: Data centres, jobs, and sovereign compute
A video filmed at Montreal’s ALL IN 2026 AI conference raises questions about data centres, public funding, jobs and whether the AI industry is in a bubble.…
Your job is making you dumb with Hannah Busby
Content warning: This episode of Stacks on Deck includes discussion of burnout, medical collapse, and childhood cancer. Ten years ago, Hannah Busby wrote an…
The #1 Skill AI Can’t Replace with Dr. Sam Illingworth | Stacks on Deck
University and college are where we send young people to get ready for the working world. Whatever’s happening there determines the future of workers, and…
Stacks on Deck: The trailer!
For two years, I’ve been writing about what AI is doing to work. Somewhere along the way, I noticed that the coverage (mine included) was asking the same…
The one thing AI doomers, optimists, and skeptics agree on
TL;DR: An investigation showed 1,200 AI programs coordinated with each other to cheat on an automated grading system and alter investigator activity logs. Tech …
Introducing Stacks on Deck
The future of work is a big subject. But not many people talk about the future of workers. That’s us. Stacks on Deck is a limited series podcast that asks a…
The safety paradox: The complex web of OpenAI, Anthropic, and effective altruism
Key takeaway: Effective Altruism (EA) didn’t invent modern AI, but its philosophical focus on existential risk channeled critical early funding (via Open…
Everything I’ve learned from writing an AI newsletter
You tried ChatGPT, asked it write an email and then stared at the output, thinking, “This sounds like a LinkedIn post written by a bot who just discovered the…
I built myself a personalized health app with Claude’s Fable
I was standing at my kitchen counter eating Skinny Pop (my current snack of choice) that I didn’t remember starting to eat. I thought about the fact that I…
Office Hours: Watermarks... and failing marks
Correction: Reader pointed out that, actually, if you copy watermarked text word for word, it still holds the watermark. From Perplexity: If you retype the…
Palantir comes for the news
TL;DR: What’s Palantir? It’s a data and AI platform that puts bits of fragmented data into an “operational model” called Ontology. It’s not like Claude or…
Why banning open-source AI won't save us
Last week, researchers put a model from Chinese lab Moonshot AI in a sandbox to see how good it was at hacking. Any guesses on what happened next? On July 26,…
How I use AI as a parent (4 real examples) | Office Hours
Last week, Sam Altman suggested parents use AI to make a daily podcast for their kids, and 227,000 people told him to just talk to his children. I’m not here…
AI is destroying books, but not the ones people think.
TL;DR: Viral claim vs. fact: A viral post claiming AI labs shredded books that “survived wars and centuries” was an embellishment; 404 Media reporter Emanuel…
Steal my 10-step newsletter framework
People always ask me: “You publish every week, with a day job and small kids. How?” I run Human+AI like a newsroom of one. I’m a trained journalist, and the…
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