Human Intelligence® News Update (3/3)

Mar 03, 2026

Human Creativity

The interview tables were turned, as Human Intelligence® co-founder Kira Cleveland was put in the questioning crosshairs of Rick Turoczy, Portland, Oregon startup-community expert, writer, and publisher of Silicon Florist. They cover the nuts and bolts of what HI does, why it’s important, and Kira’s advice to startup founders. Watch or listen » [5 min]

A picture is worth a thousand words. Especially these, the winners of World Photography Organization’s 2026 competition. Spanning three categories - Open, Student, and Youth - the human-made, hypnotic shots are a mix of beauty, provocation, and intrigue. Give your eyes and your senses a reprieve from the daily chaos. Dive into the artistry » [your time is your own]

In February, an ambitious global effort to map the “human exposome” - the lifelong load of environmental and chemical exposures that drive most disease - made baby steps, shifting from planning to (maybe) initial execution. Pioneered by Dr. Thomas Hartung, environmental toxicologist @ John Hopkins, the initiative is designed to identify and address the primary causes of human maladies. Learn more » [8 min]

What if humans not only are better than machines, but that it’s not even close? This thought exercise may seem like wishful thinking against the monolithic belief that the singularity is coming and will leapfrog human consciousness. Not so fast, says author Michael Pollan. In fact, according to his new book, A World Appears, not at all. “Just about any place you push on it, the computer-as-brain metaphor breaks down,” he says. Read the review » [10 min]

Human-rights lawyer Alexandra Reeve Givens has long focused on the intersection of technology and civil rights. CEO of Center for Democracy & Technology, this daughter of actor Christopher Reeve has turned her attention to the implications of AI - specifically how to approach and implement regulation, protect against exploitation, and ensure the public are smart and informed users. Read the Q&A » [12 min]

Microsoft has a new proposal for how to prove what’s real online. Vetting 60 different combinations of authenticity methods, the company created a technical standard that AI companies and social media platforms can adopt to identify (and maybe mitigate?) the deluge of digital manipulation. The punchline? Microsoft won’t comment on whether it will adopt its own recommendation. Learn more » [9 min]

Einstein, a new agentic AI, claims it can live a student’s life for them, including attending their lectures, writing their papers, and even logging into EdTech platforms like Canvas to take tests and participate in online discussions. So what’s the point of going to school at all if your AI doppelganger can “earn” your diploma for you? Brown University dropout and Einstein co-creator Advait Paliwal has an answer. Find out what it is » [8 min]

In 2023, Meta filed a patent for creating AI-trained digital clones that can spectrally keep decedents’ presence “alive” on social media platforms. And although the company says it’s not pursuing the technology (yet), a new paper by researchers Tom Divon and Christian Pentzold unpacks 50 real-world cases of companies that are and evaluates the legal and ethical issues surrounding posthumous personhood. Read the analysis » [5 min]

That’s the opinion The Atlantic journalist Matteo Wong came away with after witnessing the OpenAI CEO address an “unfair” criticism about the amount of natural resources required to train and run GenAI models. In pure whatabout-ism fashion, Altman responded, “It also takes a lot of energy to train a human … like, 20 years of life and all of the food you eat …” (Oh, there’s more.) That he compares chatbots to humans is … wow? Read it » [6 min]

The New York Times ran 1,000 tests across more than a dozen online tools that claim they can tell the difference between what’s real and what’s AI-generated. Their conclusion: Reliability is a mixed bag. Check out the tools and results spanning video, images, and audio. (And BTW, according to story source, AI expert, and professor Mike Perkins who said, “You’re never going to have a detection tool that is able to 100 percent detect AI,” and that text detectors were unreliable, Human Intelligence® tools average 94%-95% certitude that a work is human-made. Just sayin’.) [12 min]

Some imaginative netizens are proposing a new term to call out AI slop so other people can avoid wasting their time: AI;DR, short for “AI; Didn’t Read.” A play on TL;DR (Too Long; Didn’t Read), the acronym is picking up global traction and, fingers crossed, may even get a nomination for Webster’s 2026 Word of the Year, following its 2025’s winner “slop.” (A girl can dream.) Learn more » [3 min]

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