Less, but better? Not this week.
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“The word ‘computer’ only really slid over to mean ‘a machine’ in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, once we started building mechanical and then electronic devices to do that work instead [of people]. We did not name the machines after some abstract idea. We named them after the humans they were replacing.”
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My friend Alan Kohler, who is the finance presenter at the ABC, wrote an interesting article today about AI (January 19, 2026) – AI platforms like Grok are an ethical, social and economic nightmare — and we’re starting to wake up – in which he argued that while he thought climate change was “humanity’s biggest…
Yes, “AI” will compromise your information security posture. No, not through some mythical self-aware galaxy-brain entity magically cracking your passwords in seconds or “autonomously” exploiting new vulnerabilities.
It’s way more mundane.
When immensely complex, poorly-understood systems get hurriedly integrated into your toolset and workflow, or deployed in your infrastructure, what inevitably follows is leaks, compromises, downtime, and a whole lot of grief.
Complexity means cost and risk
LLM-based systems are insanely complex, both on the conceptual level, and on the implementation level. Complexity has real cost and introduces very real risk. These costs and these risks are enormous, poorly understood – and usually just hand-waved away. As Suha Hussain puts it in a video I’ll discuss a bit later:
I’ve often wondered what the first question I’d ask Jesus would be if given the...
By Nat Wilson Turner Sounds good to me. Not my idea though. I must give credit where credit is due. 2020: blue and tech against red 2024: red and tech against blue 2028: blue and red against tech — Balaji (@balajis) November 30, 2025 Balaji meant it as a warning to his fellow tech bosses, […]