Posts by Shomit Ghose
The Descent of Machine: Darwin Revisited
Shomit Ghose – 06/24/26 The Evolution Will Be Automated When Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, he did more than explain the history of life. He identified a general mechanism through which complexity can emerge without design. Darwin wrote about organisms, but his logic extends beyond biology. Wherever entities reproduce, variation…
Read MoreWould You Like to Play a Game? The Attacker Already Has.
Are game-theoretic tripwires our key defense against AI attack? There’s a scene in a Batman movie, The Dark Knight, where the Joker explains his philosophy of chaos to Harvey Dent: “I’m not a schemer. I show the schemers how pathetic their attempts to control things really are.” The Joker is, of course, lying. He’s the…
Read MoreA Nightmare on LLM Street: The Peril of Emergent Misalignment
Or: Has AI Now Sent the Human Hacker to the Unemployment Line Also? The Call is Coming from Inside the House In the 1979 horror film When a Stranger Calls, a babysitter terrorized by anonymous phone calls eventually learns the calls are originating from a second line inside the house she thought she was protecting.…
Read MoreThe Future of AI: It’s About Architecture
Scaling: Thinking Globally and Acting Locally For much of the past decade, AI progress has been defined by scale: larger models trained on ever greater amounts of data and compute. The paradigm of “more parameters, better performance” has driven notable advances but is now showing signs of saturation. Empirical scaling laws, such as those identified…
Read MoreDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Revisited: Agentic AI, Chain-of-Thought & Emergent Misalignment
“I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.” The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson Can We Chat? You may have seen the recent, and much-publicized, working paper titled “Large Language Models, Small Labor Effects” (Humlum & Vestergaard 2025), gauging…
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