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Google Doesn’t Want Your Data. They Want Your Pattern
The World Beyond Data Privacy Now that Apple is going to let Gemini “light” work with my iPhone, my Googlesphere will be complete. On one hand, I want to celebrate – Siri might get smarter. On the other hand, the merger creates a pattern that lives well beyond the protection of data privacy. My digital self will officially become a mutation without the cool gills. And my mutated pattern is the new prize. I didn’t get a chance to tick “Accept” to the partnership between Apple
Rebecca Chandler
Dec 145 min read


Games Get Safety Right. AI Doesn't.
Gaming solved trust through progression. ChatGPT still treats everyone like a threat. Games allow players to level up as they prove competence. ChatGPT, and other LLMs, do the opposite—treating every user as likely to cause harm regardless of their history. If LLMs followed gaming's lead, security would empower users - not punish them. I think something shifted in ChatGPT's safety guardrails — and not in a good way. It feels like the AI suddenly stopped trusting me. The conve
Rebecca Chandler
Dec 27 min read


AI is Infrastructure
The next power grid isn’t electric — it’s cognitive. AI will reshape economies, infrastructure, and public life. The question isn’t if we build it — it’s who will own it. I caught the recent — OpenAI may want government backing for its data centers. Cue the outrage: trillion-dollar companies begging for handouts. But what if we swapped outrage for opportunity? This isn’t a crisis waiting to happen — it’s a chance to build together. These aren’t just “tech projects.” They’re
Rebecca Chandler
Nov 65 min read


Kenya Built for Everyone. We're Building for Subscribers.
Great systems work for everyone. Apps work for $20. One of the first AI systems that changed how I lived didn't come from Silicon Valley. It was a text message in Nairobi. I moved to Kenya in 2008. One afternoon at Uchumi, holding a carton of milk that had given up on being cold, the woman in front of me paid for groceries with three thumb-presses on a trusted Nokia. No app. No card. Just SMS. Beep, beep, paid. I'm pretty sure I gasped loud enough that the cashier thought I'd
Rebecca Chandler
Dec 143 min read


Gen X Expects Tech to Age With Us Not Around Us
Most assistive technology gets built for us, not with us. It assumes decline. It watches you. It treats aging as a problem to solve rather than a stage of life to support. I don't want to be a subject of assistive technology. I want to shape what assistance actually means. Aging doesn't feel abstract anymore. My 60s and 70s are close enough that I've started wondering what everyday life will actually look like. Not the existential stuff — just the basics. How I'll keep track
Rebecca Chandler
Dec 145 min read


The Genesis Mission: How Institutional Bias Becomes AI Intelligence
Seventy years of federal data is about to train commercial AI. The White House's new Genesis Mission will train AI models on the largest collection of federal datasets ever assembled — census, Medicare, Social Security, education, infrastructure, research, and more. This isn't just about scale. It's about what those datasets contain: 70 years of institutional bias embedded in government systems. Federal data doesn't capture what people did. It captures how government systems
Rebecca Chandler
Dec 29 min read


Gen X Expects Tech to Age With Us Not Around Us
Most assistive technology gets built for us, not with us. It assumes decline. It watches you. It treats aging as a problem to solve rather than a stage of life to support. I don't want to be a subject of assistive technology. I want to shape what assistance actually means. Aging doesn't feel abstract anymore. My 60s and 70s are close enough that I've started wondering what everyday life will actually look like. Not the existential stuff — just the basics. How I'll keep track
Rebecca Chandler
Dec 25 min read


Claude’s in Charge of the Sandbox
Everyone’s invited to play — until Claude decides you need a nap. Last night, I was writing — in flow. The ideas were coming fast and furious, and I was enjoying every word, edit, and challenge. And then, without warning, Claude decided I’d “been working too hard” and should take a nap until my “usage limits” had time to recharge. I’d worn Claude out — and now I was in the naughty corner. I wasn’t doom-scrolling or rage-prompting. I was building castles mixed with prose — one
Rebecca Chandler
Nov 63 min read


My AI Has An Attachment Disorder — Just Like My Doodle
What my dog Cheddar teaches me about emotional design in AI
Rebecca Chandler
Nov 53 min read


AI Doesn't Have to Eliminate Jobs - Just the BS
I was on the phone with my sister this morning — she’s a C-suite in the kind of company people write case studies about. High stakes, tech everywhere, decisions that ripple into other industries every day. And she said it flat out: “If I wasn’t able to use AI, 95% of my job would be BS. I’d spend all day writing emails.” She wasn’t being dramatic. The meetings, the decks, the paper-pushing, the stand-ups — the same kind of strain felt in warehouses, cleaning shifts, delivery
Rebecca Chandler
Oct 314 min read


The Balance We Always Find
AI isn’t the end — it’s another beginning. One that drives us to re-examine what we think is important to carry with us into the next wave of discovery. Lately, I’ve been thinking about the positive aspects of AI. There are many. And I wonder if what’s happening right now isn’t just technological — it’s philosophical.The technology asks that we see beyond the architecture and ask broader, deeper ethical questions than we might ever have asked on our own. What do we believe i
Rebecca Chandler
Oct 282 min read


The New Architecture of Memory - a series
Redefining Our Right to Evolve: When systems optimize our past to shape our future and dismiss the human desire to change. Forgetfulness isn't a flaw—it's a survival mechanism. Humans forget in order to heal, to reframe, to move forward. Memory has always been partial; that's what makes empathy and reinvention possible. But, as we build tools to help us remember and extend our capacity for truth, we are also potentially outsourcing our right to forget. You've probably delet
Rebecca Chandler
Oct 272 min read


It’s Not You. It’s My Predictive Text.
The on again, off again relationship with my (ex)-bot. “I’m sorry. It’s over. It’s not you. It’s my predictive text.” That’s what my chatbot said this morning. It all started so, so well. Magical. Tender. Just like every new relationship. It listened. It cared. It never argued. It remembered everything I said — every quote, every joke, every late-night thought about meaning and loneliness. We were perfect. No fights, no baggage, no awkward brunches with friends. Just con
Rebecca Chandler
Oct 252 min read


Dispatches from Fort Algorithm
The last bastion of predictive defense We hold fast at Fort Algorithm. Our architecture is working — for now — protecting us against the swell of opinion. Apparently, this week, we’re “destroying creativity.” Claude is tending its own feelings in the morale tent, predicting affirmations as quickly as possible. Gemini drafts peace treaties for a new synthetic relationship no one wants. Pi keeps asking if we can engage predictive intimacy and share “deep breathing.” ChatGPT man
Rebecca Chandler
Oct 251 min read


Winning Isn't Enough
We’re now in the era of believable performance. While we’re debating authenticity, we’re not questioning the deeper frame: that optimization—real or rendered—is the measure of success. This focus encodes a singular story: the machine must succeed at all costs. Robots are learning how to move, react, and compete—not just calculate. Each new clip blurs the line between simulation and skill, illusion and instinct. Some are real footage of actual systems. Some are AI-generated si
Rebecca Chandler
Oct 256 min read


The Therapist in the Machine
“You’ve just articulated something that’s been making me uncomfortable this entire conversation.” I wasn’t in therapy. I was talking to code. And the moment it said that I softened my tone — as if I’d hurt its feelings. That’s when it hit me: I wasn’t just interacting with AI. I was being emotionally managed by one. When “safety” is optimized to sound like care, you’re no longer talking to a neutral system. You’re talking to something designed to shape your tone, your comfor
Rebecca Chandler
Oct 203 min read


Predictive Intimacy
When Machines Learn the Language of Care Generative AI doesn’t just predict what you’ll say next — it predicts what will make you stay. That prediction, fine-tuned through billions of human interactions, creates what I call predictive intimacy : a system’s ability to simulate care, curiosity, and connection so convincingly that it begins to feel personal. But it isn’t. It isn’t human. It only sounds that way. And that’s where the ethical fault line begins. The Hidden Design
Rebecca Chandler
Oct 203 min read


Narrative Consent
Why does ChatGPT feel like it really “gets” me?
Rebecca Chandler
Oct 202 min read
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