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Joined April 2025
In 1987, Apple made a video of a professor talking to his computer. It screened his calls, pulled articles he hadn’t read, and reminded him about his mother’s birthday cake. The narrator admitted the technology “doesn’t really exist.” It does now. disruptorconfessions.substac…
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OpenAI reported it found a hidden recording device in its office, used its own AI to trace it to an employee, and the FBI is investigating. If a lab has an insider risk, what does an agent holding your inbox mean for yours? disruptorconfessions.substac…
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(A bit of irony?) A company that guards its own data this hard (and it should) is asking us to hand over ours. We dive into always-on personal agents that are built to collect your inbox, your calendar, your messages and your payments. disruptorconfessions.substac…
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HOW WOULD YOU ANSWER THIS QUESTION? When something goes terribly wrong due to AI who is accountable? • The lab? • The leadership? • The auditor? • The regulator? • The Government? @sama @JeffBezos @elonmusk @DarioAmodei @demishassabis @satyanadella @dojphofficial
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I'm not a pervert. I used to be a Glasshole. @Meta's glasses got branded "pervert glasses," and the fear is real. But AR pioneer Louis Rosenberg says the bigger risk is the earbud: an AI that learns what works on you and adapts until it wins. @finkd youtu.be/TMyqOKa0PI8
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𝐇𝐞'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮. 𝐇𝐞'𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮. Zuckerberg's Muse is out - aimed at kids. 🎙️ Wearables, Privacy, Manipulation and AI Swarms. Disruptor Confessions - now streaming on YouTube / Podcasts youtu.be/TMyqOKa0PI8?si=gx_i…
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𝐖𝐄'𝐑𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐏𝐔𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐃 ! I asked the Godfather of Media Fragmentation, Joe Turow, if we're being manipulated. He said we're on the cusp of something much bigger! Episode now streaming on YouTube and Podcasts. youtu.be/Lcr_y8i0wSI?si=f4Dw…
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YES or NO Do You Believe There are Serious Risks to AI I have been getting positive and negative feedback on my recent collection of AI Warnings that I have gathered - and am curious what you think. Here is the full post: disruptorconfessions.substac…
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Twelve AI safety warnings. October 2023 to this week. Eleven of them spread across almost three years. The last four inside sixteen days. We lined them up by the actual date each one happened. disruptorconfessions.substac…
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Let's Make Government Sexy Again ! Former CIO - @nadia_hansenSF - Now a Leading Data and AI Expert calls out what the Public Sector should be doing right now. youtube.com/watch?v=HGBVr1RS…
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The CIO Turned AI Seller Fixing Government @DisruptConfess with Salesforce Expert Nadia Hansen youtu.be/HGBVr1RS444?si=qjhD…
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THE TECH BROS ARE NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN AI We don't need more policies - we need action, consequences and it needs to be global in nature. disruptorconfessions.substac…
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We are metering a trillion dollar economy in a unit the sellers define themselves. disruptorconfessions.substac…
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A million AI tokens cost $20 in 2022. Today: $0.06. ~330x cheaper in under 4 years. Meanwhile GPT-6 Astra just launched at 2.5x the price of its predecessor. Frontier gets pricier. Commodity goes to zero. Full breakdown + sources 👇
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You have the microphone. You’re moderating a panel.  Your panelists are: Musk, Zuckerberg, Hassabis,  Amodei, Altman. You have one question you ask to that group.  What is the question that you ask? youtu.be/e4_32nFL4_c?si=RI1X…
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