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The AI Bubble: Parallels to the Dot-Com Era and Beyond
In the realm of technological innovation, few phenomena capture the collective imagination like a speculative bubble. A bubble occurs when asset prices inflate rapidly due to hype, speculation, and investor enthusiasm, often detached from underlying fundamentals, only to burst and cause widespread financial fallout. Today, as of September 2025, the artificial intelligence (AI) sector is…
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Teaching LLMs to Ask Smarter Questions: Bayesian Experimental Design for Multi-Turn Information Gathering
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in understanding and generating text, but they struggle with adaptive, multi-turn information gathering – i.e. asking relevant follow-up questions based on previous answers. The paper “BED-LLM: Intelligent Information Gathering with LLMs and Bayesian Experimental Design” (arXiv:2508.21184) addresses this shortcoming by introducing a new approach that enables LLMs…
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AI Companions in the Classroom: Parallels Between Gibson’s Vision and the Educational AI Revolution
In William Gibson’s 1988 novel Mona Lisa Overdrive, the third installment of his Sprawl trilogy, young Kumiko Yanaka receives a sleek, wand-like device from her Yakuza father before being sent to London for safety. This device houses an advanced AI named Colin—a sophisticated, invisible companion who serves as guide, confidant, and protector, manifesting only to…
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Implications of AGI for Universal Basic Income
The emergence of artificial general intelligence (AGI) – AI systems capable of matching or exceeding human abilities across virtually all tasks – promises to profoundly reshape economies and societies. As machines become able to perform any job a human can do, the traditional link between employment and livelihood comes into question. In a post-AGI world,…
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AI Psychosis and Tech Obsession: New Delusions, Old Patterns
In recent months, reports have emerged of AI chatbots seemingly driving some users into delusional or harmful mental states. The phenomenon, informally dubbed “AI psychosis,” describes instances where people develop hallucinations, paranoid ideas, or extreme emotional attachments as a result of intensive conversations with large language model (LLM) chatbots. This is not happening on a…
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