AI Opinion & Analysis
The AI safety conversation is obsessed with the ceiling: the smartest model, the frontier, the hypothetical superintelligence. I think we are watching the wrong number. The change that will actually reshape the world this decade is not that the best model got smarter. It is that a good-enough model got almost free.
Read more: Cheaper AI is more dangerous than smarter AI, and nobody is talking about it
The most important AI story of the next year will not be a model release. It will be a court ruling. The lawsuits over what these models were trained on, the New York Times against OpenAI, Getty against Stability, are entering decisive phases, and the question they answer will quietly reshape the entire industry. I have a side, and I want to explain it honestly.
Read more: Who owns the words your AI trained on? The courts are about to decide.
Agentic AI is the phrase every vendor deck and every board meeting is chasing this year. It is also, for most of the companies rushing to deploy it, a mistake they have not noticed yet. I say this as someone who thinks agents are genuinely useful. That is exactly why the current stampede worries me.
Read more: Everyone is shipping AI agents. Most of them should not be.
I am instinctively allergic to tech regulation written by people who have never shipped anything. A lot of the EU AI Act fits that description. It is late, convoluted, and parts of it will age badly. And yet, reading through what actually takes effect in 2026, I keep landing somewhere uncomfortable: most of it is the kind of thing the industry should have done on its own and did not.
Read more: The EU AI Act is messy, late, and probably necessary
There are enough AI blogs. Most of them read like a press release with the serial numbers filed off. This one is trying to be the thing I actually wanted to read: written by someone who uses these tools every day, likes them more than is probably healthy, and still reads the fine print.