Cognitive malware keeps spreading and it’s getting harder to detect Would you rather be fooled by a fake video or a fake idea? It sounds like an icebreaker from a long road trip; but it’s actually a serious question. A deepfake is digital sleight of hand. An AI-generated video or audio clip that makes it look like someone did or said something they didn’t. And the danger is obvious: political chaos, reputational wreckage, public confusion. Fake deep is trickier. It’s la

How fictional extremists can help us make up our own minds To say we live in tense, unsettled times is an understatement. Every day, economies wobble, politics fracture, and technology races ahead faster than our nerves can manage. The result is conflict. Endless, grinding conflicts that put people on edge. A recent survey by the American Psychiatric Association found that two-thirds of Americans are anxious about current events, and nearly half feel more anxious than the

Most of us already mix human judgment with AI assistance. It's time to own it. Professionals across most industries are clinging to an unhelpful binary: those who use AI versus those who don’t. The truth is most of us inhabit the murky middle. We shape our own work while occasionally enlisting artificial intelligence for a particular task or flourish. Recent data shows AI is already a silent collaborator. A McKinsey survey (Oct–Nov 2024) found that 58 % of employees regul