Unreal Intelligence

Anthropic shipped Fable 5 — its most powerful public model to date — on June 9th. Three days later the U.S. government switched it off. By June 30th it was back. Everyone read that shutdown-and-return as the system working. I read it as a preview of the question nobody’s actually asking: not “is this model safe for the public,” but “is it safe in the hands of the people who get to decide what ‘saf...

In one week this June, the United States took its two most powerful AI models off the table — and China gave its best one away for free. Same week, two countries, two opposite bets on the future. This episode is about the phrase we all grew up on — “better safe than sorry” — and why it may be the most expensive instinct we have right now.  I walk it straight, no spin. First, the week America hit t...

Somewhere in your company right now, an AI agent is writing code nobody is reading. That's not a technology problem — it's an invoice you're signing without knowing the amount. This episode is about the three bills coming due across the entire industry: the AI-generated code that looks cheap until you have to maintain it, the "clean" data nobody actually agrees on, and the accountability vacuum th...

Everyone’s buying AI to fix email overload — and nobody’s asking why we have this many emails in the first place. This week I’m going after the most expensive open secret in corporate tech: most enterprise AI deployment is theater. Companies are pouring billions into licenses pointed at surface-level text work while the broken processes underneath keep generating the noise. MIT’s research says 95%...

Beyond ChatGPT: The AI Blind Spot Costing Science-Driven Companies Millions

A senior director just handed her go-to-market strategy to a chatbot. Didn't push back once. When Karl asked why, she said seven words that should worry every leader using AI right now: "Who am I to argue with it?" That's the real crisis. Not hallucinations. Not job loss. Deference. Smart, experienced people outsourcing their judgment because the model sounds more confident than they feel. This ep...

Ninety-five percent of corporate AI projects are returning basically nothing. Not a little — nothing. And the MIT research behind that number isn't an indictment of the technology. It's an indictment of how companies pick, scope, and measure AI work. Karl's position: the failure is organizational design wearing an AI costume. The models are fine. The deployment isn't. You'll walk out with a six-st...

A bank blocked ChatGPT at the firewall, sent the all-staff email, and felt good about it. Six months later, forty percent of their knowledge workers were using it anyway — on personal phones, pasting in whatever they needed, completely invisible to the security team. The ban didn't stop the AI. It stopped the company from seeing it. That's the argument Karl makes in this episode: a blanket AI ban...

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