The caption exercise was not primarily about producing captions. It was a stress test of how meaning is anchored, how abstraction is resisted, and how

Across the preceding essays, the domains differ: intimacy, education, identity, markets, labor, information warfare, and violence. What unites them is not “AI misuse” in the

The most serious risks posed by AI systems do not arise when they deceive, persuade, or manipulate. They arise when decision authority over violence is

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Public discussion of AI and labor often collapses into two familiar positions: either AI will eliminate jobs en masse, or it will simply augment workers