What-If

What If Your Personal Devices Formed an Agent Swarm?

This is an edition of What If, where we take a real development in AI and follow it somewhere it hasn't gone yet. Recently we dug into the quantization underground enabling frontier model to run on consumer hardware. This week: what happens when those models stop being tools

Watercolor illustration of a crash test car with career items — stethoscope, diploma, laptop, medical license — crushed in the crumple zone while the crash test dummy sits unharmed

What-If

What If Companies Couldn't Use Humans as Liability Shields?

A car's crumple zone is steel that deforms on impact. In AI deployment, the crumple zone is the person who gets fired.