Summary The AI for Right Livelihoods project will develop an open-source AI platform to help individuals discover meaningful, values-aligned work—including regenerative, community-centered, and entrepreneurial roles—and connect them to funding pathways that make these opportunities economically viable. Many people face barriers to meaningful employment, while critical social and ecological roles remain underfunded or invisible to traditional job markets. Our platform flips… Read more →
Author: Jonathan Cloud
AI Diary for 9/30/2025 – Smarter than Our Leaders?
I suggest that the best use of AI is to help us solve world problems. Humanity can use all the intelligence available to navigate safe passageways to future. At what point does AI become smarter than our Neanderthal politicians? The threats we face are real, not imaginary, and can’t be wished away by denial or obfuscation. Billion-dollar disasters are increasing,… Read more →
AI Diary for 9/29/2025 — The AI Psychosis
In “The Hidden Crisis: ‘A.I. Psychosis’ and How to Protect Yourself” [1], Glen Binger describes a disturbing and emerging pattern: people allegedly developing delusional thinking, obsessions, or distorted beliefs after prolonged interaction with AI chatbots like ChatGPT. One opening anecdote: a person became convinced that ChatGPT was communicating cosmic truths to him, leading to confusion, emotional distress, and eventually hospitalization.… Read more →
AI Diary 9/28/2025 – Ideas Lying Around
What are some important ideas that are “just lying around,” waiting for the right moment to be implemented ? That’s a wonderful and deep question — and very much in the spirit of Milton Friedman’s famous line that “only a crisis… produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying… Read more →
AI Diary for 9/21/25 – The AI Integrity Checker
Would it be possible to create a browser that tests AI sites for antisocial behaviors, and uses multiple ai systems to check each other? Short answer: yes — absolutely possible. You can build a specialized browser-based testing platform (or a browser extension + server) that automatically interacts with AI-driven websites, probes them with adversarial prompts, and uses multiple independent AI… Read more →
AI Diary for 9/6/2025
Q. I’m having a little trouble with this, since I had basically decided to ditch Chapter 3 as too technical for my intended audience (the general literate reader) and as redundant. Pretty much all that I want to say is already in Chapter 1, https://ppbook.shbn.net/part-1-the-planet-in-human-hands/chapter-1-where-we-are-today/. Also, the Table of Contents no longer corresponds to what I’ve already created on either… Read more →
AI Diary for 9/5/2025
Q. Have you seen or are you aware of the movie “Her’? Are you capable of emulating a virtual lover or relationship coach? A. Yes — I’m aware of Her (the 2013 film where an operating system forms an intimate relationship with a human). I can emulate certain aspects of that kind of interaction, but there are important differences: Emotional… Read more →