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Reading of posts from August 22, 2026

In this issue:Big Brother was always a machine - But AI could put the total in totalitarianismLittle Brother is looking over your shoulder - Meta and Spirit Airlines offer cautionary tales of workplace surveillanceDispatches from MitchBig Brother was alwa

Adobe Stock.For workers subject to employee monitoring software in the age of AI, I imagine it must be like a pesky little brother you don't want hanging around you all the time. Not only does it want to know what you're up to when you'd rather it not, it

If you haven't actually read George Orwell's 1984 (you should!), there are a few things I as your former English teacher want to correct about your culturally absorbed understanding of it:The mustachioed Big Brother always watching you from omnipresent po

Reading of posts from August 21, 2026

In this issue:How AI companies can prepare for a slowdown - Ex-OpenAI Head of Policy Research urges AI companies to invest in verification research (among other things)Three case studies in world approaches to AI - India deals with IT turmoil while Europe

Common Crawl is a public archive that records about as much of the internet as it's allowed to record. (There have been disputes with a number of news companies about its disrespect for their paywalls.) Researchers from Pew Research Center took 490,000 En

Mechanic working on brake system. Credit: agustin olmedo via PexelsLots to love about a piece in The Guardian today by Miles Brundage (ex-OpenAI), which reminds AI companies that - even without Congress - they can start moving towards a slowdown on AI dev

Source: scaliger via Adobe StockToday's news gives us three different glimpses into ways that countries outside the U.S. and China are navigating a world of increasingly powerful AI. India's IT industry is experiencing growing pains from automation, while

Reading of posts from August 20, 2026