AI & Society

AI Content Quality Collapse: 74%

The AI content quality collapse is here: 74% of new web pages now contain AI-generated material, and researchers

AI Ethics

AI Consciousness Research: 2026

AI consciousness research is now a serious investment at Anthropic, Google, and Meta, with a March 2026 study finding emergent emotional-like behavior in AI agents. Here's the evidence, and why the Blake Lemoine case still

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AI Economy

AI Freelance Economy: 77,000 Jobs Lost

The AI freelance economy cut 77,000+ jobs while paradoxically making freelancers the fastest-adapting workforce segment. Here's who's thriving,

AI News

Open Source AI Governance: 2026 Test

The EU AI Act's full enforcement lands August 2, 2026, just as Meta's open-weight Llama models spread through channels no regulator can fully monitor. Here's how open source AI governance is colliding with the world's

Stuart Kerr ·
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AI Technology

Compression Theory: The 2026 AI Secret

Compression theory holds that curiosity, beauty, and intelligence are the same process viewed from different angles. A 2026 survey confirms it underlies how large language models generalise, and explains why AI outputs often feel competent

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AI News

Cognitive Ease: The 2026 AI Trap

A randomised trial proved AI tools made developers 19% slower, yet 69% kept using them anyway. Cognitive ease,