Red flags and musings from OpenAI sycophancy, xAI manipulation, and AI coups The increasing integration of artificial intelligence into the machinery of government presents a complex calculus of opportunity and risk which comes at a time when government is largely viewed as in need of massive efficiency increases. While the...
A short story on the cascading impacts of tariffs Year One: The Warning Signs Eleanor Vega’s office window faced east, allowing the morning sun to illuminate the economic indicators flashing red on her screen. On this particular morning at the Treasury Department, she stared at projections that seemed almost apocalyptic,...
By the time you finish reading this essay, at least one nation somewhere on Earth will have moved incrementally closer to crisis. Perhaps a central bank will have depleted its foreign reserves defending an unsustainable currency peg. Maybe a pension system will have slipped deeper into actuarial insolvency as another...