Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Governance Can’t Keep Up With AI
ByMike McBride February 23, 2026February 22, 2026 Reading Time: 4 minutes

So I ask again: why are we listening to the people who have the most to gain by getting everyone to buy AI tools, instead of making our own decisions about how quickly we should move forward with AI? Governance exists to slow things down – forcing people to think before they run off and do something disastrous.

Should we design better governance to address rapidly changing technology? Absolutely. Should we let Big Tech determine how we redesign it? I don’t think so.

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Artificial Intelligence | Career | LawFirms

Worth Reading – Top 10 Biglaw Firm To Conduct ‘Massive’ Layoff, Leaving Hundreds Jobless Thanks To AI
ByMike McBride February 12, 2026February 11, 2026 Reading Time: 3 minutes

I can see why publicly proclaiming that you’re being innovative with new technology to reduce your headcount is a better alternative to admitting your firm isn’t doing well or to publicly blaming US policy. It might not be the whole truth, though. Usually, when there are large layoffs, the truth is a questionable idea anyway. AI just created another way to stretch it. In this case, Baker McKenzie may see a path in which new technology reduces the need for 10% of its staff. They may also be using that excuse to cover up failure, too.

Either way, 700 people are out of a job, and it’s become so routine that I fear it no longer raises an eyebrow. That’s the truly scary part.

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Artificial Intelligence

Worth Reading – General Purpose AI Will Never Be Safe
ByMike McBride January 24, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

I think we can agree that granting someone full access to the open internet without education or tools to protect themselves would be dangerous, no?

OK, but what is a general-purpose LLM but a collection of everything that the model could ingest, without rules about what was safe and what wasn’t?

Yet we expect people to use them, and aren’t making any effort to make them safer.

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Artificial Intelligence | SocialNetworking

Worth Reading – How Malinformation Tricks Your Brain
ByMike McBride January 17, 2026January 16, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

The article above, however, makes it clear that our brains take shortcuts to make quick decisions. In doing so, the number of times we see something that isn’t true can impact whether we treat it as false or true. They say familiarity breeds contempt when it comes to other people, but maybe familiarity with shared information breeds acceptance, regardless of the truth.

That is frightening in a world where tens of thousands of posts can be created in minutes.

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Artificial Intelligence | Personal | SocialNetworking

Worth Reading – Is 2026 The Year We All Decide to Quit the Internet?
ByMike McBride January 5, 2026January 4, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

I’ve always written under the assumption that people were reading what I put out here and, hopefully, learning something. In the age of AI-slop, I want more of that, and only that. I’m seeking it out and connecting with it. I am not connecting with people who are creating crap content in a chase for attention. Bring your authentic self, or I’m ready to assume your account is AI slop.

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Artificial Intelligence | SocialNetworking

Worth Reading – X Users Have the Power to Edit Any Image Without Permission
ByMike McBride January 2, 2026January 1, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Should we start a pool on the first Grok-produced image harassment case to hit the courts? Will it be simple harassment, or will it involve CSAM, revenge porn, etc.? There’s no way this doesn’t get misused, and Elon knows it. He doesn’t care.

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