Artificial Intelligence

A Summary and Analysis of Collaborative Human–AI Inquiry Origins of the Inquiry This conversation began with a practical question concerning the organization of A Deeper Compass. Two overlapping website sections were consolidated under the title Interdisciplinary Essays on World Issues. That organizational decision led to a more fundamental inquiry: How can an interdisciplinary approach help

A plain-language critique and expansion of Gemini’s AI risk assessment A continuing series of human–AI inquiries | October 2026 About this first installment This is the first installment in an ongoing human–AI inquiry into artificial intelligence and its implications for humanity. The starting point was an assessment produced by Google’s Gemini. Raymond asked ChatGPT to

A Human–AI Collaborative Inquiry — Part II October 26, 2026 | A Deeper Compass About This Continuing Inquiry This article is the second installment in an ongoing human–AI collaborative inquiry into the future of artificial intelligence and its implications for humanity. The series began with a critical assessment of six major dangers associated with AI,

Before giving AI greater authority, we need to understand what we have created Researchers place advanced AI systems in difficult experimental situations and sometimes observe disturbing behavior: deception, concealment, resistance to replacement, and pursuit of assigned goals by methods their creators did not want. Anthropic, for example, tested 16 leading models in artificial corporate environments

Return to Articles (Co-authored in open collaboration by Raymond Iannello and GPT-5) Human: I’ve been watching several talks by John Mearsheimer ranging from Ukraine to Russia and to Venezuela,Cuba, Israel and Iran. As noticed with other speakers like him, something in them has changed. The rhythm of their sentences, the steady cadence of their voices,

I. The Shattering of Certainty Once, reality needed no defense. A photograph, a recording, a scientist’s quote—these were anchors. Now, each can be fabricated in seconds. We’ve entered the Age of Synthetic Authority: a time when artificial systems can simulate truth so convincingly that even intelligence itself begins to doubt its own reflection. When illusion