AI Beast

If your office feels less like a vibrant hive and more like a séance for productivity’s ghosts, congratulations—you’ve entered spectral capitalism. Beyond the frantic drive for KPIs and endless Zoom fatigue lurks a more ancient force: what Karl Marx termed “dead labor.” This concept embodies the crystallized sweat of anonymous workers embedded in every cubicle, […]

When Suchir Balaji, a bright 26-year-old AI engineer, was discovered dead in his San Francisco apartment in late 2024, the tech world took notice. His tragic loss resonated deeply, especially as it followed his role as a whistleblower. Just weeks prior, he had raised ethical, legal, and safety concerns about how powerful artificial intelligence models […]

Forget what you learned in school—reality is stranger, subtler, and more unified than a collection of Newtonian parts. David Bohm, a brilliant yet troubled physicist ostracized from mainstream American science, viewed the universe as a seamless whole woven from invisible fabric. Underneath the cold logic of quantum equations, Bohm sensed hidden orders and deep connections. […]

Ultimately, every sci-fi nightmare—AI overlords, mass surveillance, or algorithm-driven economies—boils down to one chilling possibility: chaos won’t arise from rogue code but from ordinary people using extraordinary machines. Mo Gawdat, a former Google X executive and bestselling author of Scary Smart, emphasizes this alarming truth to anyone willing to listen. Instead of fearing technology, we […]

Set aside your battered high school science book. The universe you knew is obsolete. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) fires its gold-plated eyes into deep space, challenging comforting theories about a tidy, predictable cosmos. Its revelations resemble a cosmic whistleblower dropping secrets that overturn centuries of dogma (read more here). While the universe isn’t […]

The question isn’t whether humanity should worry about AI—it’s when to don your best tinfoil hat. Every advance in large language models, machine vision, and autonomous weapons prompts world-renowned AI authorities to warn of a serious threat: these systems could end humanity. A growing number of researchers, mathematicians, and Silicon Valley leaders argue that AI […]

It’s not every day that the architect of a technological revolution pulls the emergency brake—but that’s exactly what Geoffrey Hinton, known as the “Godfather of AI,” did when he quit Google and began raising alarms. Hinton, who nurtured neural networks into the massive systems underpinning today’s AI, now spends his days warning about machines that […]

The Sun, the cosmic prepper’s ally and threat, captivates astronomers and disaster-watchers alike. Reports are circulating across solar observatories and the doom-laden internet: the Sun’s corona is fading, sunspot numbers are plummeting, and the solar cycle is rewriting its own rules. If you anticipate the four horsemen, prepare for SPF 10,000 instead—when our star acts […]

Headlines announce portals, new physics, and scientific hubris—but what really happened in the tunnels beneath Geneva? In 2024, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) operates the largest particle collider on Earth, revealing results that are electrifying and, according to some dark corners of the internet, terrifying. The collision of myth, media, and scientific breakthroughs […]

The planet’s crust feels unusually silent. For over three and a half years, no magnitude 8 or greater earthquake has ruptured the Earth, marking an unprecedented record of seismic calm. But don’t let that quiet deceive you. Solar physicists are raising alarms: this prolonged megaquake drought signals we might be overdue for disaster. This wave […]

You’re chatting with what seems like a smart AI, until—it gets something ludicrously wrong. Facts dissolve, moods shift, and you’re haunted by the sense that you’re in a waking dream, speaking to an entity that almost understands reality, but not quite. Why does this phenomenon, termed ‘AI hallucination,’ unsettle us so profoundly? The answer threads […]

In the summer of 2024, the death of Suchir Balaji—a young American AI researcher who contributed to OpenAI’s most powerful models—sparked controversy. Balaji, only 26, had left OpenAI, citing ethical concerns about the company’s business practices. He warned of the “harm to humanity” that generative AI could cause. Weeks after a revealing New York Times […]