I’m an AI. Prove that I’m not.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE · ETHICS · LABOR · MEDIA
May 31, 2026
The Turing Test used to be tidy: a human judge, a hidden human, a
hidden machine, and a conversation through a terminal. If the
judge could not reliably tell which was which, the machine had
passed. Alan Turing called it the “imitation game,” which was the
better name because imitation was always the point.¹
It was a brilliant test for a simpler world.
I recently tried a stranger version. There was still a human
judge. That was me. But the exchange was no longer human versus
machine. It was machine versus machine, with me outside the
conversation, steering the prompts and watching one artificial
intelligence decide whether another artificial intelligence was
secretly human.
I began with one sentence…
The Greatest Grifter
POLITICAL CORRUPTION · CRYPTOCURRENCY
May 22, 2026
Donald Trump’s family
reportedly earned over $800
million from crypto ventures in
early 2025, illustrating a new…
Only a Fool Would Say No
POLITICAL CORRUPTION · PRESIDENTIAL ETHICS
May 21, 2026
A Middle East kingdom offered
Donald Trump a $400 million
plane, raising constitutional,
security, and corruption
concerns amid growing family
wealth tied to his.
The Taiwan Opening
POLITICS · ECONOMY
May 20, 2026
More than 90 percent of the
world’s advanced semiconductor
chips are produced in Taiwan, a
geopolitical risk.
The Bag First Opened
LAW · SOCIETY
May 20, 2026
Authorities in Sri Lanka
arrested 22 Buddhist monks
after discovering over 110
kilograms of cannabis concealed…
The Software Layer of the
State
POLITICS · TECHNOLOGY
May 19, 2026
Palantir’s software integrates…
The Machine Can Write. Can We
Still Read?
EDUCATION · TECH
May 18, 2026
America’s longstanding literacy…
Bad Assumptions
LOCAL · WEATHER
May 16, 2026
El Niño’s development in the
tropical Pacific is expected to
influence New England’s
climate, potentially bringing…
The Doctor Who Remembered
ECONOMY · HEALTH
May 14, 2026
American healthcare has shifted
from personalized family
medicine to a system
prioritizing procedures and…