Quickie: Bloomington, Indiana Has Banned the Future.
What do you do when artificial intelligence threatens to surpass humanity?
If you’re Bloomington, Indiana, apparently you pass an ordinance and hope the robots respect city limits.
In this Quickie, Aaron and Heather get into:
Terminator meets city council: Why Bloomington voted to prohibit artificial superintelligence before anyone has publicly demonstrated it.
The robots need a permit: How do you enforce a ban on technology nobody can reliably identify or measure?
Jurisdiction versus the internet: Why regulating globally distributed AI from a single municipality might be a slight logistical challenge.
Six nines of nonsense: The original proposal’s extraordinary safety requirements and why proving something is 99.9999% safe is a pretty ambitious ask.
Superintelligence Pro Plus: The AI industry’s obsession with inventing new terminology, and what happens when governments try to regulate it.
Governance or grandstanding? Why Bloomington’s approach might be legally awkward but its underlying concerns deserve a serious conversation.
The bigger question isn’t whether Bloomington can stop superintelligence. It’s why a local government felt compelled to try in the first place.
Because while we’re busy debating hypothetical AI overlords, organizations are deploying real AI systems without understanding what they do, what they access, or who’s accountable when things go wrong.
We may not have achieved artificial superintelligence, but we’ve absolutely mastered artificial bureaucracy.
AI, Apparently: Quickies — A quick, blunt look at Artificial Intelligence, from actual humans.
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10 Nov 2026
Quickie: Nvidia: The World’s most expensive security breach. Maybe.
What happens when the man powering the AI revolution finds himself at the center of an investigation involving infidelity and potential foreign espionage?
Apparently, a whole lot of uncomfortable questions.
In this Quickie, Aaron and Heather get into:
Love, lies, and GPUs: Jensen Huang’s admitted affair and the investigation into possible foreign intelligence involvement.
The world’s most expensive attack surface: Why powerful executives can become attractive targets for intelligence operations.
Zero trust, questionable judgment: All the security controls in the world can’t protect against human decision-making.
Dating apps meet enterprise sales: Heather explains why her dating life started resembling an IT procurement discovery call.
The governance problem nobody wants to discuss: When personal decisions become corporate risks, and potentially something much bigger.
The espionage allegations remain unproven, but the underlying lesson is worth examining.
Because you can build the world’s most powerful AI chips and still make decisions that wouldn’t pass a basic risk assessment.
AI, Apparently: Quickies — A blunt and quick look at Artificial Intelligence, from actual humans.
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6 Nov 2026
EP3: So Apparently We’re Doing This - I Hate This Timeline
The AI arms race is officially underway, which is comforting because humanity has historically been very responsible with arms races.
In Episode 3, Aaron Berger and Heather Vontava look at what happens when artificial intelligence stops being a technology story and becomes an economic strategy, a geopolitical weapon, and the reason your company suddenly needs seventeen new acronyms.
They get into countries racing for dominance, companies measuring productivity with numbers they found in a PowerPoint, workers training their potential AI replacements, and the increasingly thin line between “innovation” and “we should probably have thought about this first.”
There’s also the rebranding of AI, the questionable math behind promised savings, and the uncomfortable possibility that everyone is moving this fast because nobody wants to be the first person to admit they have no idea where we’re going.
Welcome to the future. Apparently, we’re doing this.
AI, Apparently | Episode 3: So Apparently We’re Doing This — I Hate This Timeline
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24 Oct 2026
EP2: This Conversation May Be Used for Training
You asked AI to make an email sound more professional. Forty minutes later, Claude knows your entire reporting structure, your issues with authority, and why “quick sync” feels like a threat.
Aaron Berger and Heather Vontava talk about what happens when your AI assistant becomes the coworker you vent to, the therapist you never booked, and the suspiciously enthusiastic supporter of your side of every argument. They get into overly agreeable bots, office politics, privacy, and the difference between getting perspective and repeatedly asking until the computer admits you were right. Plus, “work Claude” versus “street Claude,” rehearsing difficult conversations, and why changing Kevin’s name to “K” isn’t witness protection. If you’ve ever asked a chatbot, “Am I being unreasonable?” while carefully leaving out the part where you were, this episode is for you.
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9 Oct 2026
EP1: AI is Dead. Long Live SI.
Two years ago, every company needed an AI strategy. Now we’re apparently on to “super intelligence,” whatever that means this week. Aaron Berger and Heather Vontava kick off the show by roasting the hype cycle, poking at buzzwords, and asking the radical question of whether any of this actually makes work better, or just gives humans more email to answer. Spoiler: AI’s not dead. The vocabulary’s just having a very public meltdown.
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