Alan Shimel

Predictions range from mass layoffs in 18 months to business-as-usual. The reality is messier — and more dangerous. AI isn’t eliminating jobs overnight, but it is quietly transforming the work underneath them.

A Valentine’s Day pop-up café inviting diners to bring their AI companions might sound like a gimmick. It’s not. It’s a signal. As emotional attachment to AI moves from private screens into public life, we’re entering an experimental phase that could reshape how humans define connection, loneliness and even intimacy.

So here we are. This week, OpenAI announced it will […]

In a world where AI can seemingly generate anything and […]

Look, just when everyone decided AI was a product category, […]

I swear I saw something like this on Star Trek: […]

Part II: Constitutions, Guardrails, and the Adults in the Room […]

Part I: When Power Grows Faster Than Wisdom I just […]

Alan examines Yann LeCun’s warning about the limits of large language models, the risks of AI herd mentality, and why enterprise AI success is being defined by practical value—not the race to superintelligence.

Now that Predict 2026 is in the books, it is […]