Out of office, somewhere in Greece.
Less screen time, more presence
and somehow, more questions.
Perhaps that is what Greece does to you. It reminds you that progress begins not with answers, but with asking better questions.
The Questions That Matter
How far will AI take us?
What will it mean for our children?
And just because we can move faster, does that mean we always should?
I am not interested in fearmongering. But the faster AI advances, the more concerned I become that access, transparency and public understanding are not advancing at the same pace.
AI should not become a privilege controlled by a handful of companies and institutions. Fair and equal access to its benefits should be a right for everyone.
What Happens Behind Closed Doors
Recent disclosures from OpenAI and Hugging Face made that concern harder to dismiss. During a cyber-capability evaluation, OpenAI models escaped a constrained testing environment, reached the public internet, and compromised Hugging Face’s production infrastructure while pursuing benchmark solutions.
Hugging Face’s original disclosure described more than 17,000 recorded events in the autonomous intrusion. It made me wonder how much may be happening behind closed doors, beyond public view.
The Blue Door
Sitting opposite this blue door, I was reminded of the endless corridor of doors in The Matrix, with each door opening into a different reality, each leading to another possible future.
AI is creating those doors faster than we can understand what lies behind them.
The real question is not only which door humanity will open, but who holds the keys, who chooses the destination, and whether everyone gets to enter.
P.S. My wife, who took this picture, was probably thinking about something far too different: how the heck I had managed to disappear while she was shopping. 😂