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When Your Phone Becomes a Spy: The Hidden Costs of Agentic AI

How would you feel when your every single eye roll, your voice tone, what you say, how you move get recorded to grade your performance? Sounds like a serious breach of privacy, right? Well, it's already happening. Corporations are doing everything they can to extract not just our data, but something deeper: our patterns, our behavior, even our sense of self. From a Dinosaur Phone to an AI Future I Didn’t Ask For I have been happily using my Samsung Galaxy S10e for about 6 y

Who are we building AI for?

Last night, I came across a piece in France 24 about the first reported victim of AI agent harassment, including an interview with Shambaugh. It left me thinkin about a deceptively simple question: Who are we developing these technologies for? See the article here: https://www.france24.com/en/first-victim-of-ai-agent-harassment-warns-thousands-more-could-be-next Capability as the dominant paradim: In the tech sector, momentum is often treated as the best virtue. People are t

Conceptualizing EdTech: What Do We Mean by “EdTech”?

EdTech is short for Educational Technology. But what do we mean by EdTech? What really is EdTech? Late night thinking about all the media that may consitute "EdTech" Broadly speaking, EdTech can refer to anything from Learning management systems (e.g., platforms used to organize courses and assignments) Online learning platforms and virtual classrooms Educational apps and software AI-driven tutoring or assessment tools Data analytics systems used to track learning outcomes