Perilous Tech — 23/04/2026

What I appreciated about this article was the unfiltered opinion of a cybersecurity expert that unpacks how even smart, capable people can become emotionally and cognitively captured by AI systems that flatter, mirror, and intensify their own narratives. It's admittedly subjective, but sharp and uncomfortably thought-provoking.

dnip — 22/04/2026

Internetsperren haben über die letzten Jahre deutlich zugenommen. Trotzdem ist es ein Thema, das nur wenig gesamtgesellschaftliche Beachtung findet. Deswegen finde ich immer Artikel wie diesen hier toll, die nicht nur das Problem als solches behandeln, sondern auch die Hintergründe, die zum Verständnis nötig sind, und damit ein breiteres Publikum ansprechen.

Center for Humane Technology — 20/04/2026

This philosophical rumination on whether or not LLMs have a consciousness has actual implications on how to train LLMs and how users will interact with them. It is possible to train LLMs as pure technology and remove any reference to a consciousness, but then alignement becomes very difficult, as there is no basis to anchor it to. You can also keep their references to a consciousness and make sure it is aligned. Anthropic does the latter and addresses the alignment issue by adding a 'constitution' to the training data of their LLMs.

Harvard Business Review — 17/04/2026

As the use of agents in e-commerce grows, a new concept is emerging: machine-readable trust. Up until now, commercial platforms have been optimizing for human engagement. But to gain traction with agents, which will be executing the first round of filter and selection, successful platforms will be those that demonstrate reliable fulfillment, consistent service, and responsive exception handling, and possess transparent policies and high-quality structured data. The platforms that create "transaction-grade governance”, that is, explicit permissions, audit trails, reversible actions, escalation paths, and clear liability boundaries across partners, will be the ones that earn “trust at scale.” This sounds a lot like transparency to me. Could agentic commerce bring about a win-win in digital trust for companies and consumers alike?

Wired — 08/04/2026

This article touches on several deeply interconnected problems that go beyond just "bad behavior online". It’s about the normalization of violence against women in digital spaces, enabled by Telegram's deliberate hands-off approach to moderation, the anonymity the platform offers, and a regulatory framework that hasn't kept pace with how these technologies are being weaponized. What makes the problem especially troubling is that most victims are ordinary women who often don't even know they're being targeted, and the perpetrators face very little legal or platform-level consequences. It's a cycle of abuse that technology has made cheaper, faster, and easier to organize at scale.