This week's review is on AI Goes to Church by Todd Korpi.  There is a clear need for our religious leaders to think deeply about AI and its role in ministry, institutions, and society - especially in its contrast to human nature. Todd Korpi, a protestant professor and church leader, seeks to do so in AI Goes to Church. Korpi struggles to engage directly with deeper theological or philosophical issues; focusing on a pastoral response. Korpi proceeds systematically, establishi

This week's review is on If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares. Also informing this piece, their supporting website, https://ifanyonebuildsit.com/ , and the following review articles: " The case for AI doom isn't very convincing " by Timothy B. Lee. Understanding AI . Substack. September 25, 2025. " Book Review: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies " by Scott Alexander. Astral Codex Ten. Substack. September 11, 2025. Long a Cassandra of the

These are in no specific order and I'll try to include a note on accountability - but based on my reading and research, here's where I think we will go in 2026. The fundamental hallucination error of LLMs won’t be fixed but will be worked on I increasingly agree with those on the outside that big data and training cannot fix the hallucination problem - a crucial deficit for broader AI adoption and deployment - especially in sensitive industries. In 2026, this will continue to

This week's review is on Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech   by Brian Merchant. Part history, part anti-capitalist screed, part-analysis; Brian Merchant offers a fast-paced inter-connected cultural history and analysis of the present and past Luddite movements. He does so to reclaim the word "Luddite" - pointing out that these rebels were "technologists themselves; they did not hate the machines, though they did not hold any undue respect fo

ChatGPT is certainly the brand-name of AI but Google's education-focused approach has long-made it my go-to recommendation for educators in the classroom. On Wednesday, OpenAI made a new announcement aimed at closing that gap: A secure ChatGPT workspace that supports teachers in their everyday work so they can focus on what matters most—plus admin controls for school and district leaders. Free for verified U.S. K–12 educators through June 2027. Is this one more way to keep th

A review of the magazine issue from the Bishop Barron-led Word on Fire Institute. A beautifully-produced magazine that serves as just the...

This week's review is on Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust by Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis . In the nearly six years since its publication, Gary Marcus has remained a staunch contrarian even as Generative AI has exploded in financing, development, and implementation across the tech, business, and education worlds. Rebooting AI marks his first real entry into a critique of where the field was heading and the limitations imposed by those choices. Thi

From Pluribus News: TECHNOLOGY: California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has signed legislation requiring app store operators to ascertain a user’s age when they first set up accounts on personal devices like iPhones and Androids. The first-of-its-kind measure is meant to allow easier age-gating for app developers, to provide minors with an age-appropriate experience. ( Pluribus News ) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Newsom vetoed legislation that would have banned minors from accessing com

Sam Altman dropped a news bomb on X yesterday, from the BBC : OpenAI plans to allow a wider range of content, including erotica, on its popular chatbot ChatGPT as part of its push to "treat adult users like adults", says its boss Sam Altman. In a post on X on Tuesday, Mr Altman said upcoming versions of the popular chatbot would enable it to behave in a more human-like way - "but only if you want it, not because we are usage maxxing". Made by Sora. As Edward L Hamilton commen

Meta continues to work hard to be the worst social media and AI company : Meta announced on Wednesday that data collected from user...

From Google : A few months ago, we expanded Gemini in Classroom to help educators use AI for their common teaching tasks. Today, we’re...

From Google : we’ll be introducing agentic capabilities to Gemini in Chrome. These will let Gemini in Chrome handle those tedious tasks...

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church 1879-1884: The human person needs to live in society. Society is not for him an extraneous...

Ravi Yer and Jon Haidt's After Babel substack highlighted the Australian government's new social media age limi t: The law places the...

For the general public is being reduced to a state where people not only are unable to find out about the truth but also become unable...

Common Sense Med ia and Internet Matters released two surveys regarding teenagers and their engagement with chatbots. My inbox flooded...

Matt Miller highlights three key issues from Gemini's Google Classroom rollout in his July 9 newsletter : ...you might notice something...

Two weeks ago, I was happy to be in Salt Lake City supporting and presenting at the FACTS Elevate Conference . We had over one thousand...

Dan Fitzpatrick offers a short summary of the big news out of ISTE - Google Ed is getting Gemini : At the heart of the rollout is...

Part One , in which chatbots become our pools. Part Two, in which Zuck wants to own your friends and the future. Rod Dreher has been...