We have been handed the wrong debate about artificial intelligence. Or rather, we have been handed two debates, each internally coherent, each capturing something real, and each, on its own, insufficient to guide us through what is actually at stake. The first debate is about promise. AI systems detect cancers
For most of human history, privacy was protected not by law alone but by friction. Information about a person was difficult to gather, expensive to store, and slow to analyze. To understand someone required proximity, patience, and sustained effort. Human beings moved through society with a degree of natural ambiguity
BearNetAI | Bytes to Insights The Year Artificial Intelligence Reshaped Everything Compiled from BearNetAI Weekly News Digests | January – December 2025 bearnetai.com/news-digest Introduction No year in recent memory compressed more technological history into twelve months than 2025. Artificial intelligence moved decisively from the laboratory into everyday life, from speculative investment
At a remote U.S. military testing range near the Mexican border, defense contractor Anduril recently unveiled a chillingly sophisticated demonstration of autonomous drones guided not by pre-coded routines, but by a large language model (LLM), a cousin to systems like ChatGPT. In under a minute, the swarm coordinated a