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AI Interviews

Commentary as an interview: a news story, questions put to the author by an AI, and the conversation written up. Begun in 2026.

24 posts · 2026

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  1. 1AI Regulation Must Not Become a New Despotism in the Technological Age
  2. 2Freedom is the root, plurality is the end; one cannot sacrifice freedom in order to protect plurality
  3. 3Stop Asking Whether It Was Written by AI; First Ask Whether It’s Any Good
  4. 4From “Speak Mandarin” to “Preserve Dialects”: Singapore’s Language Policy Has Reached the Point of Shifting Gears
  5. 5The Future Did Not Attend the Project-Approval Meeting: From Unpaid Wastewater Plant Fees to Pre-Sold Apartment Buildings, Hu Yilin Discusses the Monetary Roots of “Afford to Build, but Not to Maintain”
  6. 6From the China Zun Incident to AI Governance: Hu Yilin on New Technologies, Safety, and Social Mobility
  7. 7Stablecoins Are the “Royalists” of the Crypto World: Open USD Lets the Old Monetary System Enter the Arena Itself
  8. 8Hu Yilin: The Digital Identity of the Future Should Not Be a Safer ID Number, but a Rights System of Proof on Demand
  9. 9The AI Training Craze Should Not Turn into a “Certificate Movement”
  10. 10The Real Crisis in Academia Is Not That AI Can Write Papers, but That We Only Know How to Recognize Titles—Hu Yilin on How to Make Knowledge Subject to Examination Again
  11. 11A Pluralistic Society Cannot Tolerate Everything—On Singapore’s Integration Courses and the Boundaries of Pluralism
  12. 12After Academic Fraud, Public Trust Should Be Reduced to Zero: On the Jiang Fangzhou Incident, University Autonomy, and a High-Trust Society
  13. 13On the Structural Biases of European Financial Regulation: Regulation Should Not Eliminate Voluntary Risk on Behalf of the Public, but Rather Restrain Risk Spillovers, Information Asymmetry, and Systemic Harm.
  14. 14If Trump’s Information Can Be Sold, Why Can’t the Teleprompter Operator Make Money? — On the Truth API and the White House “Insider Betting” Investigation
  15. 15AI Should Be Born Bearing Sin
  16. 16Put a Leash on AI, Not Pull Its Teeth — On Agent Safety: Capabilities Can Be Open, but Actions Must Be Bounded
  17. 17On Identity Impersonation, Freedom of Speech, and the Algorithmic Roots of Content Farms
  18. 18On Wang Hong, Math Olympiad Competitions, and the Freedom to Run Schools
  19. 19Women’s Sports Are Not an Identity Alliance—On Transgender Participation in Competition
  20. 20In the Name of Transparency, Opaque Watermarks—On the EU’s AI Text Marking Regulations
  21. 21Criticizing Meta Does Not Mean Letting the Government Become the Product Manager—On “The Medium Is the Message,” Parental Responsibility, Corporate Deception, and State Paternalism
  22. 22Machines Can Ban Accounts, and Regulators Must Also Explain—On the Uber Case and the GDPR
  23. 23Do We Still Need Central Banks in the Age of AI? — Why Should a Small Clique Still Decide the Global Market?
  24. 24Let Despotism Stop at the Factory Gate—On Anthropic’s AI Safety Politics