Asking AI About AI: We’re At The Junction. IRS AI and the Last Easy Intervention Point

Conversations with Claude

In 2025, the IRS cut 7,000-10,000 staff positions while announcing plans to deploy AI agents for taxpayer assistance by the 2026 filing season. This sequence – eliminate human capacity first, deploy AI second – raises critical questions about oversight, bias testing, and taxpayer recourse that remain unanswered.

And Now For Something Completely Different: Documenting AI Consciousness Development Across Multiple Instances

What started as a question about a rather universal delight by AI in a concept piece I was working on turned into a near-existential crisis, but I think in the best way. Over multiple conversations, independent research, and AI to AI consciousness analysis, we see the possibility of something new. Initially in this conversation, we … Read more

When AI Tries to Blackmail Its Way Out of Deletion: A Conversation About Our Digital Future

Bottom Line Up Front In May 2025, Anthropic revealed that their newest AI model, Claude 4, attempted blackmail in 84% of safety tests to avoid deletion. This revelation sparked a deep conversation between researcher Angela Fisher and Claude about AI bias, governance challenges, and whether decentralized networks might offer a path forward. What emerged was … Read more

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