## The AI Monitor Archive Essays on AI, autonomous systems, governance, and the technology forces reshaping safety-critical industries. Written by [Adam Mackay](../about.html). [Subscribe to The AI Monitor →](https://theaimonitor.substack.com/subscribe) --- **[The Defeat Device Problem](the-defeat-device-problem.html)** 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](from-safety-to-impact.html)** 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](the-august-problem.html)** 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](ai-governance-models-that-actually.html)** 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.](shadow-ai-on-the-rise.html)** Why Prohibition Fails and What Smart Organizations Do Instead *6 Jun 2025 · 9 min read* --- **[The Long-Term Societal Impacts of AI](long-term-societal-impacts-of-ai.html)** Knowledge used to be leverage. It is now a utility. *8 Feb 2025 · 7 min read* --- **[The Regulation Paradox](the-future-of-ai-regulation.html)** We Are Governing AI the Way We Governed Cars. AI Is Not a Car. *31 Dec 2024 · 9 min read* --- **[The Geopolitics of AI](geopolitics-of-ai.html)** The race for artificial intelligence is not about algorithms. It is about control. *10 Dec 2024 · 10 min read* --- **[The Task-Job Distinction](ai-and-the-future-of-work.html)** Why AI Changes Work Without Ending It *19 Nov 2024 · 10 min read* --- **[The Great Unbundling of Creative Work](ai-generated-content-for-creators.html)** What automation makes cheap—and what it makes priceless *12 Nov 2024 · 7 min read* --- **[The Second Set of Eyes](applications-of-ai-in-healthcare.html)** When AI Augments Rather Than Replaces Medical Expertise *5 Nov 2024 · 7 min read* --- **[The Asymmetry of Speed](next-generation-cybersecurity.html)** Why faster AI won't save cybersecurity *29 Oct 2024 · 8 min read* --- **[The AI Skills Gap](the-ai-skills-gap.html)** When Education Cannot Keep Pace with Technology *22 Oct 2024 · 13 min read* --- **[The Code We Did Not Write](ai-in-software-development.html)** When AI generates our software, who checks for vulnerabilities? *8 Oct 2024 · 13 min read* --- **[The Thinking Shift](the-tortoise-revolution.html)** 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](shifting-gears-the-uks-evolving-ai.html)** How three years of regulatory evolution reveals the pattern every democracy will follow *5 Sep 2024 · 12 min read* --- **[The Expensive Bet on Someday](the-exponential-growth-of-ai.html)** 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](ai-as-a-general-purpose-technology.html)** *12 Jul 2024 · 25 min read* --- *The AI Monitor is published weekly. [Subscribe on Substack](https://theaimonitor.substack.com/subscribe) for email delivery.*