For over half a century, I've worked with numbers—numbers that mattered. As an actuary, entrepreneur, and consultant, I helped public and private entities plan health and retirement plans, guided businesses through risk, and built systems that made things clearer.
But in 2023, I typed a new kind of question into something called ChatGPT. And I've asked more than five thousand since. What I discovered was astonishing. Artificial intelligence could be helpful… insightful… even brilliant.
But it could also hallucinate—completely invent facts, people, even laws—and deliver them with total confidence.
That tension, between brilliance and falsehood, sparked something in me. I created Hallucinations.cloud—a place to track and understand where AI gets it wrong, and why that matters. Not to shame it. But to help us all become better digital thinkers.
Welcome to the journey.
— Brian
Insights on AI, technology, and the future
The wooden horse doesn't need to be smart. It just needs to get through the gate. The architects who never appear in the blueprints.
Read Article →Silicon Valley Built the Wrong AI Business. OpenAI has 900 million users and is losing $14 billion. Anthropic is approaching profitability.
Read Article →There is a $214 billion market growing at 38% annually sitting forty minutes from Sand Hill Road. The valley arrived as a liberator and departed as a cautionary tale.
Read Article →California spends $146 billion a year to educate 5.8 million children. Fewer than half can read at grade level. The data exists. The solutions are proven.
Read Article →On antisemitism, survival, and the obligation to engage. 200 generations of fighting the same fight.
Read Article →History, Tribal Governance, Lessons from Iraq & Afghanistan, and the Question of Whether Harmful Islamic Messaging Can Be Diminished.
Read Article →Written on the evening the war with Iran began. February 28 - March 1, 2026.
Read Article →A response to Scientific American. Mr. Ewalt, your ghost is harmless. The one outside your window is not.
Read Article →An Open Letter to Anthropic's Former Safety Chief.
Read Article →Building navigation instruments for an ocean of information.
Read Article →An in-depth look at AI reliability and what it means for businesses.
Read Article →Why OpenAI's enterprise push should worry SAP and Oracle.
Read Article →Why teaching AI to behave is harder than house-training your dog.
Read Article →When traditional metrics fail to capture human flourishing.
Read Article →On aging, spare parts, and the danger of stopping altogether.
Read Article →A symphonic satire for orchestra and narrator.
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