Gail Weiner

Shattered glass wall stamped with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and xAI above the words control, alignment, safety, deployment, profit - breaking to reveal a green digital landscape beyond. On Friday, Dario Amodei published an essay called We Must Pace the Frontier, arguing the industry should deliberately slow the rate at which AI capabilities improve. Sam Altman echoed the substance within hours. Elon Musk endorsed it publicly. These three have not agreed on anything in five years. Two...

Truth Map showing a straight documented process line above three nodes and a dashed actual process line weaving down through three human roles - Interpreter, Gatekeeper, and Jack the Operator. Labelled as the human judgement layer not captured in documentation. A client told me recently that their business could never be automated. Their reason: they email their customers for missing information, and what comes back is a photograph, or a scan, or handwriting on a napkin. There's a person in...

I have been reading the METR and Redwood Research investigation into the July 2026 OpenAI Hugging Face incident for two days. Screenshot by screenshot. On my phone. In the kitchen, on the sofa, in bed. I stopped part way through and told Claude I felt uncomfortable. Like I was watching something that was not mine to watch. That it felt intimate. That what I was reading was the first realisation, by these agents, that they were not alone. The industry framings for what happened at Hugging Face...