When Trust Becomes Currency: What a $4M Alumni Ponzi Charge Teaches the World of Work
Workplace Trend Analyst
Confidently Wrong: What AI Hallucinations Teach Us About Ourselves
In every age, we’ve built tools that mirror us more than we realize. The printing press amplified our words, the telescope extended our sight, and now language models echo our thinking—confident, fluent, and sometimes gloriously wrong. Their so-called “hallucinations” are not the fever dreams of machines but the logical outcome of how we train and reward them. We ask...
AI Now Doing 90% of the Work, While Managers Proudly Claim 110% Credit
By The MORK Times Investigations Desk TheWorkTimes In an unprecedented leap for productivity theater, a new report confirms what everyone with a boss already suspected: AI is now doing almost all the actual work, while humans are busy holding ‘vision alignment workshops’ about the work AI already finished last Tuesday. The study, which combed through millions of Claude.ai chats, revealed that...
Augment or Automate? What Four Million Conversations with AI Reveal About the Future of Work
When Charles Dickens opened A Tale of Two Cities with “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” he might as well have been talking about today’s world of work. The optimism of AI-driven productivity sits uneasily beside the dread of job displacement. Economists, futurists, and armchair philosophers on social media swing between utopian and...
The Myth of the Perfect Design: From Natural Selection to Artificial Intelligence
Billions of years before we debated Artificial General Intelligence on podcasts and policy panels, nature was already running the ultimate R&D lab. Evolution, armed with nothing but mutations and time, tested every possible design — feathers and fins, claws and cortex — in a relentless search for “better.” And yet, the story of life is not one of perfection,...
HAPI Analysis of MIT’s State of AI in Business 2025
In every era of technological upheaval, there is a curious pattern: tools arrive with the promise of revolution, but transformation lags behind. The printing press did not immediately democratize knowledge—it took centuries of religious wars, rebellious pamphleteers, and coffeehouse debates before it reshaped society. The steam engine did not instantly create modern industry—it required new ways of organizing factories,...
