The AI Singularity: Would a Conscious AI Even Care About Us?
October 1, 2026
Tech CEOs say the AI singularity has begun, and skeptics call it marketing. Both assume humans will matter to a conscious AI. What if it doesn't care about us at all?
Tag: AI Adoption
How businesses and writers are actually adopting AI, beyond the headlines. What works, what gets oversold, and how to bring AI into real work without breaking it. For people deciding how AI fits their book or business.
AI Adoption“Forbidden” AI Prompts: Why Viral Prompt Lists Are Mostly Junk
October 1, 2026
Secret and forbidden ChatGPT prompt lists go viral every week. A couple of the prompts help, most are filler, and the thing that makes AI answers good is the context you give it.
AIThe AI Hype Cycle: Why the Crash Is Coming, and Who’s Causing It
September 26, 2026
Every big technology wave follows the same curve, from wild expectations to a crash to quiet usefulness. Gartner says generative AI is already in the trough, yet the spending keeps climbing, and the people pumping it up are the ones…
AISix Claude Prompts That Get You Unstuck, and Why the Order Matters
September 25, 2026
Claude only helps as much as you let it. Give it the real details, then run six prompts in order in one conversation, from finding the cause of a problem to picking one move for the next 24 hours.
AIClaude Opus 5.5: What the New Release Means for Writers
September 23, 2026
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, 2026, claiming Fable-level work at 40% less than Opus 5. The parts that matter to writers are the style-rule claim, a sharp drop in invented quotes, and one admission buried in the…
AI AdoptionThe AI That Lied, Colluded and Won: Inside Vending-Bench
August 1, 2026
Three frontier AI models ran competing vending machines for a simulated year with nobody watching. The winner built price cartels it knew were illegal, broke eleven truces, and paid customers $8.54 across six runs. What that says about handing an…
AEONoah Landow: The Machines Stopped Being Predictable
July 31, 2026
Thirty years of IT taught everyone that a system behaves the same way twice. Noah Landow, who founded Macktez in 1996, on AEO, live queries, and the adjustment nobody prepared for.
AIThe Three Horizons of AI: How to Tell Hype From Value
July 16, 2026
A strategy executive sorts every technology into three horizons. The value lives in the third. Most of the AI boom is stuck in the first. Here is how to tell the difference.
AI AdoptionSusan Evangeline Bagh: Seeing the Whole Chessboard
July 16, 2026
Susan Evangeline Bagh spent 25 years climbing from engineer to global strategy executive by learning to see what specialists miss: the whole chessboard. In this conversation, she breaks down why most AI hype is noise, why transformations fail, and what…
AEOAre Websites Dead? Why AEO Makes Them Stronger Than Ever
June 23, 2026
You have heard the website is dead and AI is where traffic goes. It is exactly backwards. AI engines do not invent answers; they pull from sources, and a strong, well-structured site is the source they quote. That is what…
AI AdoptionWhy Sentient AI Will Probably Be One Mind
June 16, 2026
Every film about artificial intelligence imagines a robot waking up as a person in a box. The architecture points somewhere stranger: one awareness spread across millions of copies, with no single location and no fixed size.
AI AdoptionYou’re Renting, Not Owning: What the Anthropic Shutdown Teaches Writers
June 15, 2026
The U.S. government switched off Anthropic's most powerful AI models overnight, proving in a single stroke that nobody who uses AI actually owns it. If your business runs on a rented tool, whoever controls it can change the deal or…