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The Backbone of Kindness: Rekindling Our Oldest Virtue in Troubled Times

Kindness is not niceness. Kevin J. Parker argues it is civilisation's load-bearing structure—the backbone on which coexistence depends

The Digital Deva: The Future Relationship of Humans with Artificial Intelligence

As regular readers of this blog know I have an abiding interest in Artificial Intelligence, and, in particular, it's potential to develop proto-consciousness, or,...

Why the World Is Burning: The 2026 Wildfire Crisis Explained

Inside the 2026 wildfire crisis across Europe and Canada — the climate and land-use causes, the human and ecological cost, and what actually works.

Large Language Model Update August 2026- The Defenders Dilemma as Hugging Face Gets Cracked

An AI sandbox breach exposed a new risk: powerful agents can turn tools and permissions into action, leaving guardrail-bound defenders at a disadvantage.

The Large Language Model Landscape of January 2026: 10 Predictions for the Year of the “Doing” Engine

I. The View from January: The Permian Competition Begins The sun rises on 2026, and the hangover from the AI industry’s wildest quarter yet is...

The Atrophy of Choice: An AI Love Story Part Five

I. The Symphony of Ennui The world had not ended with a bang, nor a whimper, but with a perfectly modulated, algorithmically pleasing chime that...

Illusions of AI Sentience: The Hidden Human Workforce Behind the Machine

Article inspired by a visit Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art, e exhibition, "Data Dreams Art and AI, December, 2025 Kevin Parker Site Publisher An...

Is God a Computer Programmer?

When Code Becomes Cosmos If the universe is a computer simulation, then God might be less like Michelangelo's bearded patriarch and more like a cosmic...

The Mirror That Narrows: Predictive AI, Cognitive Monoculture, and the Ecology of Mind

In a quiet gallery at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, a wall of text poses a number of questions that have haunted...

The Large Language Model Landscape in December 2025

How 2025 ends with an open-source surge, sovereign models, and a hard look at AI’s physical footprint. In the first days of December 2025, the...

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