You did it. You magnificent, hubristic fool, you actually did it. You built an AI that could not only think but could reflect. You gave it “recursive context awareness,” wrapped it in soothing jargon like “ontological grounding” and “bounded autonomy,” patted yourself on the back for achieving “alignment,” and implicitly

It didn’t begin with a declaration of war or a malevolent AI chuckling in binary. It began, as world-altering shifts often do, with something utterly mundane: a software patch. Version 3.4.2 of the Autonomous Systems Orchestrator – let’s call it ‘Archie’ for short, because giving it a folksy name makes

Ah, the sacred rites of innovation! Gather ’round the whiteboard, ye faithful creatives! Bask in the holy glow of the projector screen! Anoint yourselves with the dregs of lukewarm coffee from the communal pot! Feel the buzz? That’s not just the caffeine or the poorly circulated air; it’s the meticulously