Charles Hugh Smith·2d agoIntroducing ToxicBot (tm), The Bot That Tells Us What We Don’t Want to HearI’m finally ready to share a side project of mine, creating a chatbot / AI agent to answer queries without any sugarcoating, in effect…A response icon1A response icon1
Charles Hugh Smith·Jul 16AI Is the Apex of Ultra-Processed LifeI wrote Ultra-Processed Life to describe a peculiarly perverse structure of control that now dominates our entire culture and way of life…A response icon3A response icon3
Charles Hugh Smith·Jul 6Sailing the Stormy Seas of AISmall business owner and San Francisco correspondent ‘Sparx Eightthreetwo’ (found on facebook under the same name) has a metaphor of the…
Charles Hugh Smith·Jun 19What If the Work We’re Busy Automating Is Needless?Many of the topics I address are met with silence because they question the quasi-religious beliefs that underpin our entire way of life…A response icon4A response icon4
Charles Hugh Smith·Jun 10Is AI Reversing Anti-Progress or Is It Accelerating It?Consider the depth and consequences of the widening gap between these headlines. One the one hand, we’re awash in articles proclaiming the…A response icon2A response icon2
Charles Hugh Smith·May 28Could Instability Trigger Radical Change In Your Life?My five most recent essays (listed below) lay out an account of the present era that is radically different from the conventional…A response icon2A response icon2
Charles Hugh Smith·Dec 5, 2025Greed, Centralization, Monopoly, RuinThe primary characteristic of this era is the purposeful confusion of profit and greed, as if they are the same thing. Greed is good…A response icon1A response icon1
Charles Hugh Smith·Oct 31, 2025Yes, Everything Crashed — Just Not For YouA dedicated cadre of readers is devoted to reminding me that I’ve been wrong since 2009, as stocks, housing and GDP have all soared. We…A response icon3A response icon3
Charles Hugh Smith·Mar 21, 2025POD People 2025In the cultural zeitgeist, the term Pod People refers to the novel and film franchise Invasion of the Body Snatchers, in which nomadic…
Charles Hugh Smith·Feb 3, 2025Lots of Solutions, But for Which Problems?Problems, problems, problems. No worries, we have solutions. Solutions abound, but the question is: are they actually resolving the core…A response icon3A response icon3
