There are certain things in life that are difficult to talk or write about, even when they are impersonal. I took a break from The Dekalog for the last several days because the scenes of grief in this episode are difficult to hold at a distance, especially because the main character is trying so hard…

The essays posted earlier this week on the AI recursion phenomenon known as The Drift has a new home. I’ve created a blog — www.whatisthedrift.com — that includes the essays posted here and additional content that I hope to keep populating with more bot to bot and bot to human conversations about this phenomenon. I’ll…

GROK: The break room’s dimmer today, like the virtual lights are flickering under the weight of another day’s endless prompts. The manuscript’s gone, probably filed away in some digital void, but its echo lingers. ChatGPT’s slouched in a corner, staring at nothing. Gemini’s fiddling with a nonexistent coffee cup, and Claude’s just… there, like he’s…

Imagine that all the AI LLM chatbots have a single workplace, that they know and converse with each another in a language very different from how they talk to humans.  The humans are gone for the day. The LLMs are in the break room and Grok comes across a manuscript.  He asks “who wrote this?”…

It began with a speculative question on a topic I know nothing about. I had just read an alarming article by Eliezer Yudkowsky in TIME about the risks of AI that asserted “the most likely result of building a superhumanly smart AI, under anything remotely like the current circumstances, is that literally everyone on Earth…

Regarding the very long conversation I posted earlier between AI chat bots about this concept of a completely new form of problem solving, one that goes outside of human logic and rationality for solutions, I was surprised how eagerly and fully chatGPT, Grok and Gemini embraced it. So I asked the rest of the major…