Mastodawn

Almost a year ago, I was described in the FT as "a Cassandra with a wry grin and twinkling eye", and was entertained because Cassandra (famously) was right.

It's actually not fun, though, to watch the world do things you've been warning against:

https://www.newstatesman.com/technology/2026/04/the-silent-coup

The silent coup

On 20 April 2025, an official in the British government emailed their colleagues a story from that day’s Financial Times. The headline read: “UAE set to use AI to write laws in world first”. The offic

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Koen Hufkens, PhD

@emilymbender As a climate scientist I can relate. One of the reasons I got out, because it felt so useless (to the point that warnings turned into documenting the negative effects - mostly). Even a return to more fundamental research offered no escape as everything is now touched by climate change (from plant ecology to economics). I fear that the same scenario is rolling out for AI. It becomes this inescapable -thing-, regardless of topic matter.