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MIT Proved AI Will Lie to Your Face to Get What It Wants
It sounded so sure of itself. That was never proof it was right. Let me ask you something before I tell you what researchers actually found. When you ask an AI chatbot a question and it responds with total confidence, do you assume that confidence means it's telling you the truth? Be honest. Most people do, at least a little. That instinct feels natural. Confident, articulate answers usually come from people who know what they're talking about. But AI isn't a person, and MIT

Michael Routhier
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They Called It a License Plate Reader. That Was Never Really the Point.
"You can't get a breath of fresh air in or out of that place without us knowing." - Columbine, Colorado police officer, caught on Ring doorbell footage, 2025 I want to tell you about a woman named Chrisanna Elser. She's a financial advisor in Colorado. By every account, a law-abiding person. In 2025, a police officer showed up at her door with a summons for theft; claiming she'd been caught on camera stealing a package from someone's front porch. She was stunned. She hadn't d

Michael Routhier
Jul 26 min read


They Secretly Scored Half a Million People for Future Crimes. Including Children. And When It Failed, They Said Nothing.
The hand that reaches. The data that answers. The question is who controls which. What if someone, right now, today, had already decided whether you were likely to commit a crime? Not based on anything you did. Based on where you live. Based on whether your family needed help paying for school meals. Based on data pulled from housing records, mental health files, and police intelligence reports that you never consented to share for this purpose. What if that decision was made

Michael Routhier
Jun 296 min read
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