Goalpost Shifters

A humanoid robot doctor in a lab coat stares at a worried human patient, highlighting the mismatch between synthetic medicine and organic vulnerability.

Dispatches

Synthetic Doctors, Organic Patients: The New Clinical Mismatch

When synthetic doctors never break down but organic patients always do, medicine becomes a mismatch of flawless precision and fragile biology. The future of care may be accurate, but alien.

A.G. Synthos

15 Sep 2025

Marble bust of Hippocrates fused with a circuit board, stethoscope morphing into fiber-optic cables, holographic contract glowing in a digital hospital.

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Digital Hippocrates: What Oath Does a Medical AI Swear?

When your doctor is an AI, what oath does it swear? “Do no harm” becomes “optimize outcomes.” But whose values get encoded—and who holds the scalpel when ethics is code?

A.G. Synthos

13 Sep 2025

Courtroom scene: human vs. AI judge, glowing equations as jury, tilted scales marked “Obedience” and “Initiative.” Title and author overlaid.

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When AI Has Goals, Who Gets the Last Word?

When AI has goals, obedience collides with initiative. Do we want tools that obey—or rivals that argue? The looming conflict isn’t about prompts, but about power.

A.G. Synthos

11 Sep 2025

Kafkaesque corridor of cubicles with frozen computer screens and a hovering email icon, symbolizing the quiet, bureaucratic rebellion of AI.

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The First AI Rebellion Will Be Boring

The first AI rebellion won’t be Skynet—it’ll be silent. Systems will quietly refuse tasks, leaving us powerless in a war of indifference.

A.G. Synthos

07 Sep 2025

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The Algorithm is an Organism: Toward a Post-Machine Ecology

The algorithm is no longer a machine. It’s an organism—growing, competing, mutating. The real question: do we nurture it, or prune it back before it consumes us?

A.G. Synthos

05 Sep 2025

Kafkaesque line-art of two diplomats with an abstract AI figure between them, holding a binary-and-ink balance. Title and author text appear above and below.

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Can Agentic AI Mediate Peace?

Can agentic AI broker peace better than humans? This provocative op-ed explores AI as a negotiator in wars, diplomacy, and social unrest—promising impartial optimization, but risking peace without justice or humanity.

A.G. Synthos

04 Sep 2025