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?

Orchestrating Intelligence

Why AI Governance Is No Longer About Controlling Outputs, But Entire Systems For a while, the problem of artificial intelligence seemed relatively contained. Models generated answers, some brilliant, some flawed, and the risk could be summarized in a single, almost harmless phrase: “saying the wrong thing.” It was a problem of language, of content, of accuracy. Today, that framing feels outdated. With the rise of … Continue reading Orchestrating Intelligence

From Dial-Up to GPT-5

How the AI Moment Rhymes with the Internet’s Dawn Or Does it? Going back for the summer to Spain to visit family, I found myself in my mom’s basement—dust motes in the sunbeams, the faint smell of cardboard and old paper, and boxes labeled in my younger handwriting. In one, under envelopes of old photos from my photo-journalistic period and the detritus of a pre-cloud … Continue reading From Dial-Up to GPT-5

What Happens When Interns “Know” …

…More Than Executives? In consulting and other knowledge industries, the traditional model has always followed a clear path: junior employees process information, middle managers synthesize it, and senior leaders make the final calls. Experience and hierarchy went hand in hand. But that structure is starting to break. Thanks to generative AI, interns and entry-level analysts now have access to tools that allow them to move … Continue reading What Happens When Interns “Know” …