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Why Ancient Survival Instincts Struggle in a Modern World An interactive debate curated ai:Pod. Sourced with Sébastien Bohler, Olivier Hamant and PAUSE AI recent material to help a better understanding of the Global Tech and Business Performance Trap. The Great Performance Trap: Why the Future is Arriving Too Fast for Our Ancient Brains. We are…

Mentor your inner mentor and stay sharp in a AI world of robots and tech billionaires. A bilingual article (GB-NL) + NotebookLM interactive mode voice app from kinokast.eu. I designed it especially to match questions from an active learning audience, age 9 to 99 – curious or cautious. The “100x Revolution” is changing our world…

What Could Possibly Go Wrong with AI? 2026 Industrialized Censorship The Digital Services Act (DSA) delegates judicial power to private “trusted flaggers,” enabling political control through mechanisms like shadow banning. Cognitive Debt: Heavy reliance on AI for writing and analysis causes individuals to surrender their cognitive sovereignty, making them more susceptible to manipulation. Mass Surveillance:…

Three weeks!That’s how long it takes for most people to go from “AI is going to change everything” to quietly closing the tab and doing the work themselves. A Microsoft study tracking 300,000 employees found a pattern: excitement spikes when people first use AI tools, then crashes. Outputs feel generic. The AI sounds confident but…

From Word-lego Blocks towards Your Super-Smart AI Friends: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 2026 AI Revelations and Predictions From Nobel Prize in Physics, “AI-godfather” Professor Geoffrey Hinton and UX design and Usability-guru, Pioneer Jakob Nielsen. Nederlands: Deze PDF presentatie geeft een heldere uitleg voor jong en oud over wat AI is, hoe het in de…

Happy 2026 for All Genres (& Genders) – with or without AI. I have two things for you for celebrating the New Year: A New Symbol of Unity traffic light design, and a new Gemini 3 “Gem” app that makes it easy for you to navigate kinokast and ai:Pods A New Symbol of Unity, a…

Read a very short story I wrote for Christmas 2025 in Berlin. Spoiler: it is about Alex and Lia. Be ready for some healthy (self) irony. A biggy-first for me! Writing a short story!(read below, in a few languages) I wrote a Very-Tiny Short Story for you to unpack.7 min. read! English.Self-Induced AI, for Christmas.…

5 Truths About Artificial Intelligence in 2026 Based on recent research and reporting, these truths challenge our core assumptions about what this technology is and where it is leading us. Here are five astonishing facts that reveal the true nature of the AI revolution. Featured Header image:Apr 9, 2018 Official audio for “Fight to Survive”…

The End of an Era The great AI “Age of Scaling” is coming to a close. This period, roughly spanning 2020 to 2025, was defined by a deceptively simple recipe for progress: add more data and more compute to get a better model. This low-risk strategy fueled an unprecedented boom, but it is now hitting…

Beyond Data Theft: Linguistic “Dis-education” in the Age of World Models (“spatial AI”) November 2025 To the NotebookLM: ai:Pod 050 – Nothing artificial about AI – Linguistic Vulnerability: Data Leaks & Dis-education. Curated current research sources in the ai:Pod 050 include: Emad Mostaque (Open source AI, co-founder of AI)Geoffrey Hinton (Nobel Prize in Physics, 2024,…

2% chance against the global spreading of “Normal Accidents”.Shifting The Goals of Performance Towards Creating Robustness in System Biology and Fiscal Economics (Charles Perrow, Olivier Hamant, Gabriel Zucman) November 2025 “Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies” is a 1984 book by Yale sociologist Charles Perrow, which analyses complex systems from a sociological perspective. Perrow argues…

What If the Worst Chapter in History (Nazism) Was Never Really Closed? Summary Most of us learn about the Nazi regime as something safely tucked away in the past — a horrific chapter that the world opened, read in horror, and firmly shut. We tell ourselves it was a freak accident of history: one dangerous…

Beyond the Carrot we all do need for going forward… Hardly half a day passes without headlines heralding another rapid advancement in Artificial Intelligence. We are told that AI is getting smarter, faster, and more capable at an exponential rate. But the most critical insights about AI’s true impact are not in the headlines. They…

5 Surprising Truths About Wealth and Power in 2025 English How French Socioliogist Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) Explains Economist Gabriel Zucman’s Tax Fights in France and abroad in 2025 The public debate over wealth inequality often feels like a confusing shouting match. When economists like Gabriel Zucman, a student of world renown French economist Thomas Piketty,…

The Algorithm’s True Cost: 5 Disturbing AI Realities We Need to Really Face Beyond the Buzzwords Every day, we are told that Artificial Intelligence is a revolutionary force poised to reshape our world. The headlines promise unprecedented efficiency, boundless creativity, and a future free from human drudgery. This narrative of inevitable progress is powerful, persistent,…

French academic scientists, the economist Frederic Lordon and philosopher Barbara Stiegler on failing neoliberalism embodied by French President Emmanuel Macron (2025) French text below | Lire en langue française A quite serious note about this GenAI header image taken from Jakob Nielsen’ blog, I oppose but purposely present here This ai:Pod podcast and article in…