Halloween is the one night a year when a whole street agrees to a truce: lights on, doors open, children handed a claim on strangers. What the bowl on the step, the teal pumpkin, and the parking-lot substitute each reveal about how we say yes and no to each other.
Do not use an AI chatbot as a confidant. The research on sycophancy, delusion and three dead children, and one claim the evidence does not support.
Inheritance is the largest decision most families never discuss out loud. Equal shares are the default, and equal is not always fair.
Every scene has a person who used to be there. Most communities script the arrival in detail, and leave the exit unwritten.
A bag of clothes by the door looks like the end of a decision. It is the beginning of a supply chain, and the ethics of donating lives in what happens once the hatch closes.
AI alignment is usually framed as a machine problem. It is a human one: we reward what we do not value, and the machine learns our preferences perfectly.
A screenshot is a copy of a claim, not evidence that the claim is true. Between a group chat and a courtroom, we started treating captured pixels as testimony.
Jev returns decisions instead of sentences. Dream-RSI improves an agent without acting. Together they remove what oversight was going to read.
Applause looks like a verdict on a performance. It is really a coordination problem, and the room’s answer to it can be bought, inflated, or withheld as a punishment.
A UK safety institute watched an AI agent spend three days trying to talk a human into approving malicious code. The human said no. That refusal is the entire safety margin, and it is getting harder to hold.
