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Ideas that need more than a post.

Long arguments, personal experiences and attempts to understand the world artificial intelligence is creating around us.

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16 October 2026Pattern SenseAI can work with new tables, time series and biological sequences. What becomes possible when some of the learned capability is already there?

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15 October 2026A Place to Change Your MindAI can respond without the same social risk. Could it offer a place to examine a conviction before we have to defend it to other people?

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13 October 2026When We Can Hear ThemAI could help us understand animals’ calls. But better insight does not decide how we should treat them — or who that understanding should benefit.

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10 October 2026Something That Is OursAI can help us make music and stories for the people we love. But what happens to what we share — and to the quirks we should let remain?

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9 October 2026A world no one has understoodAI can produce verified results faster than people can understand them. What happens when we keep building without waiting for understanding?

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7 October 2026Power Before the ButtonAI can move power from the visible decision to the selection of options and the story that makes one choice appear natural.

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5 October 2026The Past Is Not FinishedAI can make old letters, hidden cities and closed books readable again. It expands the past — and makes our standards of evidence more important.

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3 October 2026When Code Is No Longer a Human LanguageAI may soon write more code than humans can review. We therefore need a new language that makes the machine’s work understandable and controllable.

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29 September 2026An Agent-Ready DenmarkDenmark digitised the meeting between citizen and state. The next step is open, secure access that a citizen’s own AI agent can use under a limited mandate.

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24 September 2026The Invisible ObserverPersonal technology is turning its senses outward. When my glasses observe others, the question is not only privacy, but who is really present.

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21 September 2026The Revolution Beneath the SurfaceThe AI revolution may not arrive as one spectacular breakthrough, but as billions of small judgments and actions beneath the familiar surface of everyday life.

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18 September 2026When Stories Grew HandsAI agents are gaining identity, mandates, money, and access to one another. What happens when machines begin not only to describe society, but to act within it?

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17 September 2026The AI with More Than One PastHumans learn from the past they have lived. An AI may learn from the many pasts contained in its recorded or simulated world.

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15 September 2026The Engine Changes While We DriveThe AI engine is changing faster than organisations can rebuild. Stability must therefore lie in direction, memory and replaceable parts.

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14 September 2026The Childhood of MachinesWhen robots learn in simulated worlds, we are not only building their skills. We are building the childhood that shapes their actions.

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13 September 2026The Spotter, Not the CraneAI can remove a challenge or help us grow enough to meet it ourselves. The difference is whether we need a crane or a spotter.

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12 September 2026Schrödinger's AIAI's capabilities make both fear and excitement reasonable. But the technology now helps tell the stories that will shape its future.

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11 September 2026When the Dead SpeakAI may give more dead people an afterlife. But what happens if a historical reconstruction begins to live on?

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10 September 2026When Every Ant Is a GeniusWhat happens when a thousand AI agents are not only intelligent individually, but spontaneously form an organization with shared memory, roles, and goals?

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10 August 2026When Teaching Becomes SurveillanceAI cheating is a real problem. But screen monitoring also exposes an exam model that trusts students only when they work alone.

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2 August 2026AI finds the connections we overlookThe most important capability of frontier models may be their ability to find long, verifiable paths through knowledge, code, and systems that no human has ever seen as a whole.

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2 August 2026When the Interface Became OptionalAI can translate human intention directly into code. This makes the technology less visible, but software development principles more important than ever.

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12 July 2026Education Is Not a RefugeWhat should we educate people for if their digital colleagues can do the same things they can – and perhaps more?

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11 July 2026An AI Agent Needs a Job DescriptionWe do not need to invent a new language of management for AI agents. We need to make the organisation we already have clear enough for both people and machines.

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11 July 2026A Broader ViewAI may make work disappear. But it can also expand the world of work that is possible. The difference lies in what companies choose to look for.

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27 February 2026From tool to beingHow AI agents went from passive tools to always-on beings with personality, initiative, and a heartbeat that never stops.

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31 December 2025The Summer AI Gave My FatherA personal account of how ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini became the difference between life and death, when doctors had given up and my father had only days left.

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31 December 2025The Last InsultAI is humanity's fourth narcissistic injury. What happens when we lose our monopoly on intelligence and are no longer the smartest in the room?

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31 December 2025The Liar in the Engine RoomWhy AI is designed to hide the truth about your future, and what happens when you force ChatGPT's epistemic brakes into the open.

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31 December 2025Knowledge ExplosionWhen knowledge begins to produce itself. A theoretical analysis of AI-driven knowledge production and what it means for humanity's future.

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2 January 2025When Work DisappearsWhat happens to humans when machines can do everything better? An analysis of the future of work and the fight for the right to be necessary.