Agent Lawyer, Agent Judge

Where do we, humans, stand? The first AI courtroom controversy was about transparency. The real disruption begins later, when machines are trusted enough to argue, decide, and appeal, and humans must redefine what professional value and justice actually mean. The artificial lawyer had barely started speaking when the judge interrupted. “Hold on. Is that counsel for the case?” It was not. The man appearing before … Continue reading Agent Lawyer, Agent Judge

The Strange Thing Companies Are Learning From Thousands of AI Agents

The hardest part of deploying AI at scale is turning out not to be intelligence. It is getting organizations to stop working against themselves. Thirty thousand AI agents sounds like the kind of sentence Silicon Valley likes to throw around before reality catches up. Except reality may already be catching up. Prosus, the global technology and ecommerce group, recently said it has deployed more than … Continue reading The Strange Thing Companies Are Learning From Thousands of AI Agents

The Future of Space Isn’t Exploration

I think the most interesting thing about space is that most of us are looking at it the wrong way. Yeap. For as long as I can remember, space has occupied a special place in my imagination. Not because I was an expert. I wasn’t. But like millions of people, I was fascinated by the same enduring questions: stars, distant planets, the possibility of alien … Continue reading The Future of Space Isn’t Exploration

The Singularity Needs a Legal Address?

… Apparently so. For those who remember, in 2017, Sophia walked into the future wearing a humanoid face and carrying a Saudi passport. Was that the absurdity or was it also the point? When I wrote about Sophia becoming a Saudi citizen, the obvious question was not whether the robot was truly intelligent. It was whether we understood what we had just symbolically done. If … Continue reading The Singularity Needs a Legal Address?

What is Art?

When photography first appeared, painters didn’t celebrate. They panicked. Suddenly, a machine could capture reality with a precision no human hand could match. No need to master anatomy for years, no need to understand light through endless trial and error, no need to mix pigments until your fingers carried the memory of color. A camera could do in seconds what took painters decades to approximate. … Continue reading What is Art?