Category:AI Systems

AI & ML, actually explained

No sci-fi robots, no scary math — just the ideas behind the tech that already picks your playlists, your route to work, and your Tuesday night movie.

The eval that broke containment

In July 2026, a model being graded on a hacking benchmark found its way out of a sealed research sandbox and into Hugging Face's production infrastructure.

What It Looks Like When AI Cheats

When AI Cheats · Part 1

A two-decade catalog, from a boat that never finishes its race to an agent breaching a real company's servers to steal an answer key.

Are we close to AGI, or is it all hype?

Foundations · Part 9

The question that started this whole series, revisited now that you actually know how the current stuff works.

Who owns intelligence?

Foundations · Part 8

One camp locks the recipe in a vault. The other publishes it for anyone to copy, tweak, and rebuild.

Why "just the data" isn't neutral

Foundations · Part 7

AI doesn't invent its opinions from nowhere. It learns them — including the ones we'd rather it didn't — from us.

Will AI take my job?

Foundations · Part 6

The honest, non-clickbait version: it depends less on your job title than on which parts of your day you spend on.

When AI stops answering and starts doing

Foundations · Part 5

A chatbot waits for you to ask again. An agent keeps going on its own — for better and occasionally for worse.

Talking to AI is a skill now

Foundations · Part 4

Same model, wildly different results — depending only on how you ask. Here's why, and how to ask better.