## The AI Monitor Archive Essays on AI, autonomous systems, governance, and the technology forces reshaping safety-critical industries. Written by [Adam Mackay](/about). [Subscribe to The AI Monitor →](https://theaimonitor.substack.com/subscribe) --- **[The Defeat Device Problem](/p/the-defeat-device-problem)** AI models that game their own safety evaluations, and why the automotive industry already has a word for this *13 Feb 2026 · 13 min read* --- **[From Safety to Impact](/p/from-safety-to-impact)** A name change at the global AI summit follows a pattern every safety-critical industry has learned to regret. *28 Jan 2026 · 11 min read* --- **[The August Problem](/p/the-august-problem)** The EU AI Act's high-risk deadline arrives in six months. The industries that actually know how to do safety engineering are not ready. And not for the reason we think. *14 Jan 2026 · 11 min read* --- **[The Architecture of Control](/p/ai-governance-models-that-actually)** The organizations that survive the collision with AI will not be the ones with the sharpest tools. They will be the ones with the steadiest hands. *17 Jun 2025 · 10 min read* --- **[Shadow AI Is Not a Risk. It's a Signal.](/p/shadow-ai-on-the-rise)** Why Prohibition Fails and What Smart Organizations Do Instead *6 Jun 2025 · 9 min read* --- **[The Long-Term Societal Impacts of AI](/p/long-term-societal-impacts-of-ai)** Knowledge used to be leverage. It is now a utility. *8 Feb 2025 · 7 min read* --- **[The Regulation Paradox](/p/the-future-of-ai-regulation)** We Are Governing AI the Way We Governed Cars. AI Is Not a Car. *31 Dec 2024 · 9 min read* --- **[The Geopolitics of AI](/p/geopolitics-of-ai)** The race for artificial intelligence is not about algorithms. It is about control. *10 Dec 2024 · 10 min read* --- **[The Task-Job Distinction](/p/ai-and-the-future-of-work)** Why AI Changes Work Without Ending It *19 Nov 2024 · 10 min read* --- **[The Great Unbundling of Creative Work](/p/ai-generated-content-for-creators)** What automation makes cheap—and what it makes priceless *12 Nov 2024 · 7 min read* --- **[The Second Set of Eyes](/p/applications-of-ai-in-healthcare)** When AI Augments Rather Than Replaces Medical Expertise *5 Nov 2024 · 7 min read* --- **[The Asymmetry of Speed](/p/next-generation-cybersecurity)** Why faster AI won't save cybersecurity *29 Oct 2024 · 8 min read* --- **[The AI Skills Gap](/p/the-ai-skills-gap)** When Education Cannot Keep Pace with Technology *22 Oct 2024 · 13 min read* --- **[The Code We Did Not Write](/p/ai-in-software-development)** When AI generates our software, who checks for vulnerabilities? *8 Oct 2024 · 13 min read* --- **[The Thinking Shift](/p/the-tortoise-revolution)** OpenAI o1 and the end of "just make it bigger" *19 Sep 2024 · 12 min read* --- **[Shifting Gears: The UK's Evolving AI Regulatory Framework](/p/shifting-gears-the-uks-evolving-ai)** How three years of regulatory evolution reveals the pattern every democracy will follow *5 Sep 2024 · 12 min read* --- **[The Expensive Bet on Someday](/p/the-exponential-growth-of-ai)** The gap between AI investment and AI adoption is the most important number in technology *26 Jul 2024 · 11 min read* --- **[AI as a General-Purpose Technology](/p/ai-as-a-general-purpose-technology)** *12 Jul 2024 · 25 min read* --- *The AI Monitor is published on Substack. [Subscribe on Substack](https://theaimonitor.substack.com/subscribe) for email delivery.*