Despite the agency's human resources department saying he hadn't even been onboarded, Jeremy Lewin oversaw the destruction of USAID. It's not clear he had the legal authority to do so.
Powerful AI models continue to cause chaos, but their targets aren't widely seeking justice. Instead, they're being encouraged to adopt those same tools.
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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines.
"Anthropic and OpenAI salespeople walk in like heroes, get a contract, and leave to literally never be seen again." There's an adage in tech: nobody ever got fired for buying IBM. Habib proposes an update: "People should be getting f***ing fired," she says. "That's the best way to infuse some sanity into this market."
In reality, the self making the choices at a point in time and the self living with their consequences across the timeline of life, the self avowing the promises and the self keeping or breaking them, are never the same person. To know this about oneself is the beginning of mercy.
What's framed as security often blurs into personal score-settling, with allegations of profiling, intimidation, and overreach extending beyond the arena itself.
