The Daily Cyborg

— Dispatches from the Human-Machine Frontier —

NEURAL WEATHER ∷
Cognitive load moderate  ·  Augmentation index rising  ·  Signal clarity: 73%  ·  Upload winds from the northwest  ·  Synaptic pressure: nominal  ·  Memory fragmentation: low  ·  Firewall integrity: 99.2%  ·  Bandwidth: unlimited  ·  Dream cache: 84% full  ·  Consciousness uptime: 16h 42m
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Issue No. 030  ·  May 28, 2026

THE HAND YOU KEEP ON THE WHEEL

A RAND model maps the point where human agency loss becomes irreversible. A Nobel laureate says AGI arrives by 2030 and your salary depends on being the person people want to ha...

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THE HAND YOU KEEP ON THE WHEEL
Issue No. 029  ·  May 27, 2026

CHOOSING WHICH PARTS TO KEEP

Anthropic's co-founder stands in the Vatican and calls for 'informed critics' outside the industry's incentive structure while 99% of CEOs expect AI-driven layoffs and 65% of wo...

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CHOOSING WHICH PARTS TO KEEP
Issue No. 028  ·  May 26, 2026

THE POPE DEMANDS AI BE DISARMED

Pope Leo XIV issues a 42,300-word encyclical declaring AI 'demands to be disarmed' while Google's AI Search crosses a billion monthly users and Novo Nordisk bets its pipeline on...

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THE POPE DEMANDS AI BE DISARMED
Issue No. 027  ·  May 25, 2026

THE ORACLE AND THE OVERRIDE

California moves to cushion AI layoffs while unions map four strategies to fight back and researchers warn AI is flattening how we think. Meanwhile, AI outperforms doctors in cl...

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THE ORACLE AND THE OVERRIDE