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What an AI Watermark Can and Can’t Tell You On August 11, Anthropic published an article in its help center explaining how Claude now marks what it produces: an imperceptible statistical watermark woven into generated text, and signed C2PA provenance metadata attached to supported generated files. The marking is applied at the model level, so […]
Six years after its pandemic-era launch, The Tech Humanist Show has grown into a seasonal platform for thoughtful conversations about technology, humanity, and what comes next.
Dmitry Grozoubinski has spent his career making trade legible to people who aren’t trade experts. When I asked him what people are experiencing as they try to follow the tariff news — 90-day pauses, court rulings, retaliations, reversals — he said it was more unsettling than just complicated policy. He called it vibes-based. “It’s not […]
Last week, a video clip went viral not because of what it showed, but because people couldn’t agree whether it was real. The arguments in the comments — pixel analysis, motion blur, finger counts — were more prominent than the content itself. The question “is this authentic?” had eclipsed the question “what does this mean?” […]
The dispute between Anthropic and the Department of Defense isn’t primarily a story about one company and one contract. It’s a live-fire exercise in AI governance—and every organization with an AI strategy should be watching carefully. What Actually Happened Here’s the compressed version of a fast-moving story. In the summer of 2025, Anthropic secured a […]
I have a confession about speaking. When people ask, as they occasionally do, why I became a speaker, what drew me to the profession — and why I travel to stages around the world year after year, why I keep writing and refining and honing what I say — I sometimes struggle to give a […]
When we talk about business strategy, we’re constantly drawing from the language of sight. We seek vision. We pursue clarity. And we value insight and foresight. Even the company’s name—KO Insights—is rooted in this metaphor. But somewhere during the writing of my book A Future So Bright, I started noticing something. These metaphors are pervasive. […]
The ChatGPT Caricature Challenge has that familiar viral momentum. Upload a photo, get an AI-generated cartoon version back, share it with friends. Harmless fun, right? We’ve been here before. And I’ve been warning about this for years. In January 2019, the 10 Year Challenge swept through social media—millions posting side-by-side photos from 2009 and 2019. […]
Last night, I stood in a room full of people celebrating books—human-authored books—at the Porchlight Business Book Awards ceremony. My book What Matters Next was among the forty titles on the longlist, selected from more than 700 submissions. We didn’t take home an award, but standing in that room felt like something more important than […]
Today, as we honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy, it’s worth sitting with an uncomfortable truth: things feel hard right now. Not just in the United States, but around the world, people are grappling with a sense that the ground is shifting beneath them faster than they can adapt. The pace of technological change […]
