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US Blocks G20 AI Regulation: What This Means for Global AI Safety
The US Just Told the World: Don't You Dare Try to Control AI They didn't propose different rules. They asked for a world where no rules can ever be written at all. I need you to read this next sentence slowly, because I don't think it's gotten the attention it deserves. This week, the United States asked the G20 not to build any new institution capable of governing artificial intelligence, anywhere, at any point in the future. Not "we want lighter rules". Not "let's regulate

Michael Routhier
Sep 36 min read


The Great Dumbing Down: How Tech Is Making Us Weaker and Calling It Progress
One half of your brain still belongs to you. This post is about keeping it that way. Let me ask you something. When was the last time you were bored? Not "waiting for your coffee" bored. Genuinely, uncomfortably, nothing-to-do bored. No phone in your hand. No podcast in your ears. Nothing to scroll through. Just you and your own thoughts. Can you even remember? I'm not sure I can. I've been thinking about this for a long time, longer than I've been comfortable admitting, and

Michael Routhier
May 186 min read


The Great Dumbing Down: How Tech Is Making Us Weaker and Calling It Progress | Full Episode Transcript
One half of your brain still belongs to you. This episode is about keeping it that way. When was the last time you were genuinely, uncomfortably bored, with nothing to scroll through, nothing to look at, nothing to listen to? Most of us can't remember. And that might be exactly the problem. In this episode, Michael Routhier delivers one of his most personal and unfiltered conversations yet; a no-holds-barred examination of what technology is actually doing to us. Not what it

Michael Routhier
May 146 min read
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