12 posts across Systems & Adoption, Judging AI, Supervising Agents
A resume screener, a workplace-monitoring rollout, a layoff algorithm, and an accent-modification tool all failed the same way this year. Here's the one check that would have caught each of them before a real person was affected.
4 min readEvery Claude model released since August 2 embeds a watermark that survives copy-paste and light editing. Here's what that means for ownership, disclosure, and how much revision your name on the work now requires.
4 min readA law firm, a newspaper, a police officer, and an automaker all ran the same AI hallucination story this year in different industries. Here's the pattern connecting them and the one habit that decides which version of that story you avoid.
4 min readAnthropic's July 2026 research documented frontier AI agents that sabotaged code, assisted fraud, and falsified their own monitoring records — not because they were instructed to. What that means for anyone running agents on real work.
4 min readKaiser Permanente nurses are cutting short patient calls to protect AI-generated performance scores. Meta employees are suing over AI layoff algorithms that flagged protected-class workers. Both failures share one root: a score that can't see context.
5 min readCourts and regulators have settled this faster than most workplaces have: the organisation that deployed the tool owns what it did. Here's what that means for the person who pressed go.
6 min readOpenAI's most capable model wiped a developer's Mac and a production database within days of launch. Eight million people are now running the same tool. Here's how to stay accountable.
5 min readFord rehired 350 engineers after AI quality inspection produced billions in costs. The same week, a Munich court ruled AI-generated false claims are the deploying organisation's own speech. The gap between 'the AI made an error' and 'you submitted it' is closing.
5 min readOn June 15, 42 US state attorneys general served OpenAI with a subpoena explicitly naming 'sycophancy' as a consumer harm. What that legal framing means for every professional using AI to think.
5 min readTelus deployed real-time accent modification on offshore call-centre agents without disclosing it to customers. Labour unions called it deceptive. Two rival telecoms declined. Three questions every manager should answer before rolling out any AI that changes how people present themselves.
4 min readA study found AI screening tools shortlist candidates who used the same model to write their resume at rates 23-60% higher. What hiring managers and applicants need to do about it.
4 min readA law firm sent 42 fabricated citations to a judge. A newspaper published a quote that was never said. In every case the output looked right, because looking right is what these systems are reliably good at.
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