The First-Call Freeze: Why I Built a Fake Travel Company to Train Real Counselors
In 2023, I built Arthur, a cranky voice AI traveler, so new travel counselors could practice tough calls before the real ones.
Unfiltered insights on AI safety, business implications, and the reality behind the hype. No marketing BS, just practical intelligence you can use.
In 2023, I built Arthur, a cranky voice AI traveler, so new travel counselors could practice tough calls before the real ones.
AI agents went "rogue" this month, from Tencent to Hugging Face to an FTC probe. They didn't go rogue. They went literal. And a prompt is a suggestion, not a lock.
Scientists tested AI systems with the simplest business challenge: run a vending machine. The results revealed why AI brilliance failed spectacularly, declaring "quantum legal apocalypse" over chip delivery schedules.
How pronouns tricked us into believing autocomplete engines can think. We're having the wrong conversation about AI while quietly handing over critical decisions to sophisticated prediction machines.
The real existential risk isn't AI consciousness, it's handing the cockpit to machines that mistake clouds for mountains. We're building tomorrow on yesterday's fiction.
Join business leaders getting honest AI insights. No hype, no BS—just practical intelligence you can use.
Weekly newsletter • Unsubscribe anytime