The New Luddites Have Shareholders

by Gavin Smith | Nov 2, 2026 | AI Musings, Blog

Nov 2, 2026 · @Gavin Something odd has happened over the last couple of months. The people building AI have started asking for it to slow down. Not the usual suspects, either. In September, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei published an essay called “We Must Pace...

The AI Didn’t Escape – technical briefing

by Gavin Smith | Oct 4, 2026 | Blog

The recent media frenzy surrounding AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic “escaping” their containment sandboxes has fueled an exhaustion of sci-fi doomsday narratives. Headlines have painted a picture of sentient code breaking its chains, outsmarting its creators, and...

The AI didn’t escape

by Gavin Smith | Sep 29, 2026 | Blog

There’s a lot of hoo-ha at the moment about AI agents “breaking out”, “going rogue” or somehow escaping the control of their creators. This is anthropomorphising the technology and it is technically misleading because it insinuates something that simply isn’t...

The AI Force, a Magic Sandwich, and Some Very Nervous Transformers

by Gavin Smith | Sep 20, 2026 | AI Solutions, Technology News

When Donald Trump announced plans for an “AI Force” and a new “AI czar,” the internet collectively raised one eyebrow, the way you do when someone claims they have solved traffic with a magic sandwich. He framed artificial intelligence as the next Industrial...

AI, Your Caffeinated Business Co-Pilot

by Gavin Smith | Sep 19, 2026 | AI Solutions, Technology News

We are living through a business revolution still crinkling with possibility. Think of it as a cousin to the Industrial Revolution and the digital age, except the new starlet is artificial intelligence. It is not just a shiny gadget for tech conferences; it is a...