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AI and Critical Thinking: What Happens When AI Thinks for Us?
As AI agents take over more reasoning, writing and decision-making, what happens to critical thinking? A look at cognitive autonomy, children and desirable friction.
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Does the Celebrity in Your Ad Need to Be Alive?
AI Resurrections, Synthetic Endorsements, and the Consent Problem That Doesn’t Die The dead are working again. AI-generated Elvis is performing in a London immersive experience. A synthetic James Earl Jones is voicing Darth Vader in Fortnite. An AI-generated George Carlin delivered a comedy special he never wrote, to an audience he never met, about a…
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When a Values Statement Cannot Stop an API Call
An AI system can cause real harm without any malicious intent. It does not need malice. It does not need consciousness. It does not even need to “understand” what it is doing in the human sense. It only requires three elements: access, authority, and a poorly governed path to action. That is why agentic AI…
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The AI That Negotiates Against You
When the Other Side Isn’t Human—and You Don’t Know It Imagine negotiating your salary. You’ve done your research. You know your value. You’re ready to advocate for yourself. But what you don’t know is this: The offer you receive may have been shaped before the conversation ever started—by an AI system trained on thousands of…
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When AI Has a Face: What Digital Humans Mean for Trust
Meet Dex. She performs at fashion weeks in Paris, New York, and Milan. She models Prada and Louis Vuitton. She chats with her thousands of followers about music, style, and life. She is charming, knowledgeable, and always available. She is also entirely fictional. Dex is a digital human — a fully AI-generated persona created by…
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Would You Trust an AI to Fire You?
When Algorithmic Management Collides with Executive Responsibility Imagine arriving at work on Monday morning to find a meeting on your calendar titled “Performance Review.” You join the call expecting your manager. Instead, you receive an automated message: “Based on performance analytics and workforce optimization models, your position has been identified for termination effective immediately.” No…
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When Government Demands Collide with AI Standards
AI ethics doesn’t fail in theory. It fails when a contract includes three words: “any lawful use.” This week’s standoff between Anthropic and the U.S. Department of Defense is a crisp example of what’s coming for every enterprise deploying frontier AI at scale: your “ethical commitments” will be tested not by a blog comment section,…
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Is Your AI Recommending the Best Product—or the Most Profitable One?
Why Executives Need to Take a Hard Look at AI-Driven Marketing Artificial intelligence isn’t just working behind the scenes anymore. Today, it’s front and center—chatting with customers, answering their questions, guiding their choices, and even suggesting what they might want to buy. To many people, these interactions feel personal, seamless, and genuinely helpful. However, new…
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Algorithmic Pricing: Navigating the Collision of Revenue and Reputation
Delta Air Lines recently reaffirmed to US lawmakers that it does not use AI to set individualized ticket prices based on personal factors such as income, browsing history, or travel behavior. 1 Instead, the airline uses AI models to optimize revenue at the route level, relying only on aggregated and anonymized data—promising zero tolerance for…
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AI Fashion Models: Innovation or Dangerous Illusion?
Does the model in your recent fashion advertisement really exist? Welcome to the age of AI-generated fashion photography, where beauty is algorithmic, efficiency reigns, and ethical lines blur. Artificial Intelligence is revolutionizing the fashion industry, from automated design and personalization to now powering fully digital photoshoots. But as AI replaces traditional models, photographers, and stylists,…
AI and Ethical Decision Making
