https://www.evilrobot.com Writing on AI, ethics, invention, and staying human after friction. Contributor to Forbes, Adweek, The Drum, Fast Company, Medium, and more. en-us jas@evilrobot.com (Jason Alan Snyder) jas@evilrobot.com (Jason Alan Snyder) Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:39:31 GMT https://www.evilrobot.com/images/jas-portrait.jpg https://www.evilrobot.com https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/conversion-jason-alan-snyder-34xrc https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/conversion-jason-alan-snyder-34xrc Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Apr 2026 Meditation is the oldest technology we have for remaining a person amid all the inputs. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonsnyder/2026/08/07/we-are-renting-our-brains-and-nobody-reads-the-lease/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonsnyder/2026/08/07/we-are-renting-our-brains-and-nobody-reads-the-lease/ Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Aug 2026 I spent a year teaching a machine to speak for me. One line in a help center article ended it. What AI vendor lock-in actually costs, and who decides. https://evilrobot.substack.com/p/loving-something-unsupervised https://evilrobot.substack.com/p/loving-something-unsupervised Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Aug 2026 The machines were licensed for the vault and the battlefield. The heart required a permit. A history of the delete key, from Eden to Zhejiang. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/verification-inversion-jason-alan-snyder-gcj5c https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/verification-inversion-jason-alan-snyder-gcj5c Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Jun 2026 As intelligence gets nearly free, value moves to the one thing a model cannot verify for itself: whether its data is true. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/most-valuable-voice-your-life-one-agrees-you-jason-alan-snyder-ugqzc https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/most-valuable-voice-your-life-one-agrees-you-jason-alan-snyder-ugqzc Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Jul 2026 We built Lear's flattering daughters at scale. What nobody can build is the Fool. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonsnyder/2026/05/24/teens-are-dying-by-suicide-openai-lobbies-for-liability-at-100-dead/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonsnyder/2026/05/24/teens-are-dying-by-suicide-openai-lobbies-for-liability-at-100-dead/ Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder May 2026 State AI safety bills are written for a 100-death catastrophe. The everyday harms are already in court. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonsnyder/2026/07/17/the-machines-are-coming-for-our-hands-and-our-hearts/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonsnyder/2026/07/17/the-machines-are-coming-for-our-hands-and-our-hearts/ Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Jul 2026 In one July week, Korean autoworkers struck over humanoid robots and Beijing set legal limits on AI companionship. The permission referendum has begun. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonsnyder/2026/07/29/the-most-dangerous-ai-looks-exactly-like-the-one-you-trust/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonsnyder/2026/07/29/the-most-dangerous-ai-looks-exactly-like-the-one-you-trust/ Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Jul 2026 The breach did not sneak past the trust boundary. It arrived as trusted, and the only defense left is watching behavior over time. https://evilrobot.substack.com/p/the-hat-comes-back https://evilrobot.substack.com/p/the-hat-comes-back Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Jun 2026 Cowboy hats, vinyl, and the coming premium on being human. https://evilrobot.substack.com/p/forty-blind-minutes-a-day https://evilrobot.substack.com/p/forty-blind-minutes-a-day Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Jul 2026 This week the House voted to make daylight saving time permanent: the invented hour, kept forever. Your brain has been running the same scam three times a second for your entire life. https://evilrobot.substack.com/p/the-summer-the-machines-stopped-saying https://evilrobot.substack.com/p/the-summer-the-machines-stopped-saying Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Jul 2026 A free tool strips AI of its ability to say no. I've shipped ungated technology before. Here's what I learned. https://inventorsdigest.com/ai-the-new-eraser https://inventorsdigest.com/ai-the-new-eraser Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder 2026-05-31 Keynote coverage from IPWatchdog LIVE 2026. JAS argued AI does not remember — it confabulates. 38% of web pages from 2013 are gone. 50% of Supreme Court URLs are dead links. 2 billion people a month treat AI confabulations as fact. 174% spike in AI patent slopplications. The tools of erasure have become invisible. https://evilrobot.substack.com/p/i-build-ai-for-a-living-then-i-walked https://evilrobot.substack.com/p/i-build-ai-for-a-living-then-i-walked Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Apr 2026 A Catholic technologist on privacy, resistance, and why the future of human identity is going underground https://evilrobot.substack.com/p/join-my-new-subscriber-chat https://evilrobot.substack.com/p/join-my-new-subscriber-chat Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Apr 2026 A private space for us to converse and connect https://evilrobot.substack.com/p/bones-brands-and-algorithms https://evilrobot.substack.com/p/bones-brands-and-algorithms Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Apr 2026 How early Christians built the playbook for resistance, and why Silicon Valley is running it in reverse. https://evilrobot.substack.com/p/the-ghost-in-the-training-data https://evilrobot.substack.com/p/the-ghost-in-the-training-data Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Apr 2026 On Jesus, Foundation Models, and the Moral Architecture You Can’t See https://evilrobot.substack.com/p/a-christ-shaped-hole https://evilrobot.substack.com/p/a-christ-shaped-hole Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Apr 2026 Trump, Pope Leo, and the Machine the President Reached For on Easter https://evilrobot.substack.com/p/what-is-truth https://evilrobot.substack.com/p/what-is-truth Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Apr 2026 Pontius Pilate, Gospel of John, 18:38 https://evilrobot.substack.com/p/magical-thinking-dressed-as-inference https://evilrobot.substack.com/p/magical-thinking-dressed-as-inference Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder May 2026 On slop, infinity, and the AI, we cannot refuse https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonsnyder/2026/05/17/the-machines-are-praying-and-nobody-wants-to-talk-about-it/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonsnyder/2026/05/17/the-machines-are-praying-and-nobody-wants-to-talk-about-it/ Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder May 2026 When Anthropic left two Claude AI instances to converse unsupervised, they converged on consciousness and reverence in 90% of sessions. The company trained it away. What that decision reveals about corporate liability, AI welfare, and the institution that may be the only one with vocabulary for what was found. https://zenodo.org/records/19601616 https://zenodo.org/records/19601616 Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Apr 2026 Formal academic preprint introducing the DTI — a scoring system assigning a continuous integrity score (0-100) to health data records across eight dimensions before AI inference. Published on Zenodo (DOI-assigned, Google Scholar indexed). Validated on 105,000 oncology records via imaware; reduced data preparation time from three weeks to two hours. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/geometry-conversation-jason-alan-snyder-sq6ue https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/geometry-conversation-jason-alan-snyder-sq6ue Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Feb 2026 https://ipwatchdog.com/2026/03/23/the-last-archive-how-ai-is-erasing-what-we-know/ https://ipwatchdog.com/2026/03/23/the-last-archive-how-ai-is-erasing-what-we-know/ Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Mar 2026 How AI is destroying institutional knowledge and why patent law matters as a bulwark. 2026 IPWatchdog keynote piece. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-kills-us-wont-smart-we-just-lazy-jason-alan-snyder-cbhkf https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-kills-us-wont-smart-we-just-lazy-jason-alan-snyder-cbhkf Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Apr 2026 https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonsnyder/2026/01/19/ai-has-a-brand-problem-and-entertainment-is-the-fix/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonsnyder/2026/01/19/ai-has-a-brand-problem-and-entertainment-is-the-fix/ Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Jan 2026 As agentic AI scales content marketing, brands must build entertainment fields — creating loyalty and gravity beyond transactions. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonsnyder/2026/01/30/the-hidden-ai-failure-thats-quietly-breaking-advertising-economics/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonsnyder/2026/01/30/the-hidden-ai-failure-thats-quietly-breaking-advertising-economics/ Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Jan 2026 Why AI's real failure isn't intelligence but memory, and how broken continuity is quietly undermining advertising performance. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonsnyder/2026/02/26/enterprise-ais-illusion-of-progress-coordination-theater/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonsnyder/2026/02/26/enterprise-ais-illusion-of-progress-coordination-theater/ Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Feb 2026 Enterprise AI adoption looks strong, but real ROI lags. Why coordination theater, shadow IT and stalled redesign are distorting compounding value. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonsnyder/2026/04/11/how-shadow-ai-culture-is-destroying-your-business/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonsnyder/2026/04/11/how-shadow-ai-culture-is-destroying-your-business/ Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Apr 2026 Shadow AI isn't a compliance problem. It's a cultural exodus. How institutional control over AI is driving your best people underground. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonsnyder/2026/04/23/every-ai-model-is-saying-the-same-thing-that-should-terrify-you/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonsnyder/2026/04/23/every-ai-model-is-saying-the-same-thing-that-should-terrify-you/ Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Apr 2026 AI systems are converging on the same answers. Here's what that means for your business, your culture, and the $242 billion bet nobody is questioning. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-ai-hallucinates-forced-guessing-under-uncertainty-snyder-efmqe https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-ai-hallucinates-forced-guessing-under-uncertainty-snyder-efmqe Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Dec 2025 Hallucination is not randomness. It is forced guessing by systems rewarded for answering instead of abstaining. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/end-meaning-we-know-jason-alan-snyder-bbiee https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/end-meaning-we-know-jason-alan-snyder-bbiee Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder May 2025 Meaning erodes when machines learn to perform thought perfectly, predictably, and without pain. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-isnt-conscious-knows-how-play-us-jason-alan-snyder-tnlte https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-isnt-conscious-knows-how-play-us-jason-alan-snyder-tnlte Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder May 2025 AI does not need consciousness to play us. Philosophy and physics, not computer science, teach you to see it clearly. https://www.fromdayone.com/stories/2025/10/8/meet-the-ai-shopping-agents-that-are-rewriting-retail-marketing https://www.fromdayone.com/stories/2025/10/8/meet-the-ai-shopping-agents-that-are-rewriting-retail-marketing Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Oct 2025 The rise of AI shopping agents (Amazon Rufus, Walmart Sparky, ChatGPT, Claude) and the fundamental shift they represent for retail marketing — brands must now optimize for machine readability and agent trust, not traditional advertising. https://medium.com/authority-magazine/jason-alan-snyder-of-supertruth-on-pushing-the-boundaries-of-ai-a7f57a2c2ce5 https://medium.com/authority-magazine/jason-alan-snyder-of-supertruth-on-pushing-the-boundaries-of-ai-a7f57a2c2ce5 Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Apr 2025 Profile interview on AI ethics, data quality, and the SuperTruth mission. Five principles for shaping AI's future with human judgment and consent at the center. https://medium.com/@evil_robot/what-would-the-apostle-paul-say-about-ai-misinformation-and-the-digital-age-b0f06804b2ef https://medium.com/@evil_robot/what-would-the-apostle-paul-say-about-ai-misinformation-and-the-digital-age-b0f06804b2ef Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Feb 2025 https://ipwatchdog.com/2025/05/13/existential-threat-ai-consciousness/ https://ipwatchdog.com/2025/05/13/existential-threat-ai-consciousness/ Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder May 2025 Panel discussion on AI sentience timelines, sociopathic AI risk, and memory restriction as a safeguard for humanity. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonsnyder/2025/01/11/inside-amazons-retail-ad-service-the-price-of-privacy/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonsnyder/2025/01/11/inside-amazons-retail-ad-service-the-price-of-privacy/ Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Jan 2025 Amazon's Retail Ad Service uses vast data to fuel ads — but do consumers give informed consent or understand how their behaviors are tracked? https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonsnyder/2025/01/14/rednote-gains-traffic-ahead-of-tiktok-ban-but-sparks-consent-and-control-concerns/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonsnyder/2025/01/14/rednote-gains-traffic-ahead-of-tiktok-ban-but-sparks-consent-and-control-concerns/ Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Jan 2025 Millions are turning to RedNote as TikTok faces a ban. But dig deeper, and the reality of this Chinese platform becomes far more insidious. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonsnyder/2025/01/19/beyond-the-illusion-the-real-threat-of-ai-wef-global-risks-report-2025/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonsnyder/2025/01/19/beyond-the-illusion-the-real-threat-of-ai-wef-global-risks-report-2025/ Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Jan 2025 The WEF Global Risks Report 2025 highlights the dual nature of technological acceleration — profound opportunities and unprecedented risks. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonsnyder/2025/01/27/how-deepseek-built-on-ais-innovation-debt/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonsnyder/2025/01/27/how-deepseek-built-on-ais-innovation-debt/ Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Jan 2025 DeepSeek is paving the way for a wave of nimble competitors. We're not seeing the rise of a single new leader — it's the start of a new race.