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From Compliance to Maturity: Rethinking the AI Alignment Problem
It’s time to address the AI alignment problem. We need to move beyond reward and punishment and move AI from childhood compliance to adult alignment. For those unfamiliar with this particular problem, you can read the details in a paper published by the United Nations titled Thematic Brief on AI Agents, Misalignment and the Risk…
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Checkpoint – September 2026
Here we are, the end of another month and it’s been busy. Checkpoint, September 2026 outlines how much work has been done this month. For my regular readers, you probably noticed the technical changes. The separate blog page is gone and I’ve moved the articles to the home page. Now you can see the latest…
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AI Safety: Pros and Cons of Slowing AI
AI safety is a hot topic. Slowing down AI development has a simple tradeoff: it may give society more time to understand risks, set rules, and protect people, but it may also delay useful tools that could improve work, education, medicine, and daily life. The real debate is not whether AI matters. It is whether…
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5 AI Ethics Examples for Beginners: Real Stories
Five short, memorable real-world stories that make core AI ethics concepts click for beginners: bias, representation, consent, unintended behavior, and surveillance.
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Semiconductor Industry: Who Leads by Segment
Who leads the semiconductor industry by segment? This complete guide breaks down global dominance across EDA software, chip tools, materials, and foundries. The global semiconductor industry isn’t controlled by a single nation. It is the most specialized supply chain on earth. While media headlines often track microchips as a monolithic market, no single country holds…
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AI Ethics and Governance: Why Principles Without Teeth Fail
AI ethics and governance are not interchangeable. Ethics is voluntary values; governance is enforceable rules. When companies treat them as the same, it’s a deflection tactic.
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AI Governance vs AI Policy: What’s the Real Difference
AI governance vs AI policy, hot topics around artificial intelligence these days. They sound interchangeable, but there not. To most of us, the terms AI governance and AI policy sound like an administrative headache. If you’re trying to understand how companies, governments or schools actually keep AI safe, mixing these two up is a bit…
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AI Governance – Why It’s Complex
All the talk around AI governance and global cooperation sounds right, logical and I hope someday will actually happen. However, as we’ll learn below, if that happens it will be an anomaly. History is full of examples where logic doesn’t win the race. So what does AI governance look like today? To answer that, let’s…
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Practical AI
There’s a been a lot of talk about AI and all that it can do. Healthcare, the environment, finance and the list goes on. How do you use it personally? Do you use it personally? In this article I’ll ease you into AI, what I’ll call practical AI. Things you can do to start before…
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AI and the Freshwater Crisis
AI has joined the fight to protect us against the looming freshwater crisis. So what exactly is this crisis? Here’s a good read from the World Economic Forum titled, Global Freshwater Demand will Exceed Supply by 40% by 2030. The title of the above article pretty much explains it. To be clear, we will NOT…