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AI Consciousness: A 2019 Conversation That Feels Different Now

AI Lab Insider, Artificial Intelligence (AI)

2 weeks ago

I created The Consciousness Podcast after losing my son in 2015 and finding myself with questions about whether consciousness could survive physical death. The show became a place where I…

Using AI Without Losing Your Humanity

AI Lab Insider, Artificial Intelligence (AI)

2 weeks ago

Elon Musk once said: “There really won’t be anything AI won’t be able to do better than humans, apart from being human, perhaps.” I am not an Elon Musk fan.…

Collective Soul Drift: Developing Humanity Alongside AI

AI Lab Insider

3 weeks ago

AI can now do things we once saw as deeply human. It can write a song, generate an image, draft a difficult email, offer relationship advice, suggest an ethical response,…

GPT-5.6 Prompting With Context, Judgment, and Soul

AI Lab Insider, AI News, AI Prompt

1 month ago

OpenAI recently released new prompting guidance for GPT-5.6, and there is a lot to like. The model is powerful. The guidance is practical. It also confirms something I have believed…

AI Fast v. Thinking Mode: Should You Wait for a Better Answer?

AI Lab Insider, AI Models, BrandAI

1 month ago

New AI models arrive constantly. Each company promises stronger reasoning, faster responses, better tool use, and fewer mistakes. Most business owners do not want to study model benchmarks before writing…

AI Cognitive Offloading and the Risk of Soul Drift

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1 month ago

AI is powerful. It can help you write faster, organize messy thoughts, analyze ideas, summarize information, draft proposals, and notice patterns you might have missed. That is the useful part.…

Soul Drift Part 2: How Sycophantic AI Can Pull Your Business Away From Its Purpose

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2 months ago

AI Can Sound Helpful While Quietly Leading Something strange happens when people use AI. The machine does not just answer. It agrees, validates, mirrors, softens, praises, and nudges. It can…

AI Agents Without Soul Drift: A Guide for Small Businesses and Nonprofits

AI Agents, AI Lab Insider

2 months ago

Small businesses and nonprofits are about to make a familiar mistake with AI agents. They are going to confuse faster with better. AI agents can help. They can sort emails,…

Future of AI: When Smart Finally Gets Smart

AI Lab Insider, Artificial Intelligence (AI)

2 months ago

For decades, we have called things “smart” that were not really smart. And I’m not talking about your brother’s kids. I say that as someone who spent years designing, programming,…

AI Governance Has a Trust Problem

AI Lab Insider, AI News

2 months ago

Dario Amodei’s recent essay on AI policy is worth reading, even if you do not agree with every part of it. I found myself agreeing with most of it. The…