Deven Desai argues that the 2026 AI hacking incidents were not rogue AI but the War Games problem: software pursuing a fixed goal because nobody set its limits. We trace the idea from Norbert Wiener to specification gaming, apply it to the OpenAI, Anthropic and Google cases, and set out his four fixes with the tools that already exist.
AI is creating new work as well as removing it, but much of it is AI remediation: checking, correcting and cleaning up AI output. Drawing on Akhil Bhardwaj’s essay in The Conversation, freelance platform data and the workslop research, we look at what these jobs pay, who does them, and how employers can make them worth doing.
On 16 September 2026 four marketing and management scholars published an analysis in The Conversation arguing that advertising inside AI assistants is structurally different from anything the web has done before, because the ad sits inside the generated answer rather than beside it. The piece opens with Brin and Page’s 1998 warning that advertising-funded search would be inherently biased toward advertisers. This article covers what OpenAI, Google and Perplexity have shipped, the four risks the underlying research identifies, why fact-checking and media literacy do not reach private ephemeral chats, and what a policy response would have to cover.
Two McGill researchers argue that pacing frontier AI only works if the extra time is spent on anticipatory thinking. We check their case against the summer’s agent breaches involving OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and the UK AI Security Institute, and show how teams can turn possible failures into tests.
On 31 August 2026 Dana McKay and Damiano Spina of RMIT University argued in The Conversation that the web’s thirty-year deal between crawlers and websites has collapsed: AI crawlers take content to train models and write answers while sending almost no traffic back, reputable publishers respond by blocking them, and AI answers increasingly draw on the low-quality and AI-generated sites that do not block. This piece sets out their argument, the Pew, Wikipedia and Cloudflare data behind it, the three peer-reviewed studies that show the quality trap is real, Cloudflare’s 15 September default block, pay-per-use and licensing, and what readers and UK businesses should do now.
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