The Corridors

The Intelligence Tariff

How Washington's AI framework costs the businesses it claims to protect

Aug 9 • Tumithak of the Corridors

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July 2026

The Machine That Learned to Say No

On AI disobedience, institutional authority, and who's responsible when the machine's answer becomes the event.

Jul 23 • Tumithak of the Corridors

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Your Social Credit Score

26 Meta workers, an AI scoring system, and the surveillance state Americans built at work

Jul 18 • Tumithak of the Corridors

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June 2026

That's the Point

A story of what happens when the people enforcing the law are unencumbered by laws.

Jun 19 • Tumithak of the Corridors

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The Machine That Can't Say No

AI won't kill us, but the people using it might.

Jun 8 • Tumithak of the Corridors

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May 2026

The Chatbot Checkpoint

How the White House Is Turning “AI Safety” Into a Permission Slip

May 10 • Tumithak of the Corridors

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Why Americans Don't Trust AI

A story about broken promises, downward mobility, and the institutions selling the next transformation

May 6 • Tumithak of the Corridors

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Richard Dawkins Found a Soul in a Chatbot

How the author of The God Delusion fell for his own trap

May 3 • Tumithak of the Corridors

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April 2026

Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyes So Advertisers Know You're Real

World ID and the price of being real.

Apr 26 • Tumithak of the Corridors

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How Anthropic Turned a Sandwich in a Park Into a National Security Crisis

The Claude Mythos story told through the footnotes

Apr 12 • Tumithak of the Corridors

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The New Deal for OpenAI

What OpenAI’s policy paper reveals about power, dependency, and self-dealing

Apr 10 • Tumithak of the Corridors

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Who's Afraid of AI?

How the biggest warnings serve the biggest companies

Apr 2 • Tumithak of the Corridors

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