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) Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:42:32 GMT https://www.evilrobot.com/images/jas-portrait.jpg https://www.evilrobot.com https://www.evilrobot.com/updates/engines-week-of-2026-10-05 https://www.evilrobot.com/updates/engines-week-of-2026-10-05 Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:45:39 GMT What AI answer engines said about Jason Alan Snyder, September 28, 2026 to October 5, 2026, with the query behind every number. https://www.evilrobot.com/updates/engines-week-of-2026-09-28 https://www.evilrobot.com/updates/engines-week-of-2026-09-28 Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:41:40 GMT What AI answer engines said about Jason Alan Snyder, September 21, 2026 to September 28, 2026, with the query behind every number. https://www.evilrobot.com/updates/engines-week-of-2026-09-21 https://www.evilrobot.com/updates/engines-week-of-2026-09-21 Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:41:32 GMT What AI answer engines said about Jason Alan Snyder, September 14, 2026 to September 21, 2026, with the query behind every number. https://www.evilrobot.com/updates/adweek-ai-power-50-2026 https://www.evilrobot.com/updates/adweek-ai-power-50-2026 Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Mon, 14 Sep 2026 22:12:36 GMT Adweek listed Jason Alan Snyder, Co-founder and Chief AI Officer of Artists & Robots, among the 50 leaders on its 2026 AI Power 50, published 3 March 2026. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/everyone-arguing-models-argument-data-jason-alan-snyder-jxtgc https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/everyone-arguing-models-argument-data-jason-alan-snyder-jxtgc Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT On the same 300 records a fruit fly's fixed wiring matched SuperTruth's trust level 84 times out of 100; four frontier models, 20 to 45. Scrambled wiring and a random web did just as well as the fly, so structure did the work, not size. The argument to have is about what we feed the machine. https://zenodo.org/records/22865214 https://zenodo.org/records/22865214 Jason Alan Snyder Jason Alan Snyder Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Working paper. The complete wiring of a fruit fly's central nervous system (MaleCNS v1.0) held fixed and trained only in synaptic gains, an input projection and a readout, asked to reproduce two SuperTruth trust scores: the Data Trust Index on synthetic health records and the Behavioral Integrity Index on agent event logs. Controls: a shuffled graph, a random graph, a parameter-matched network, a linear readout and four frontier models given the DTI paper and the same records. Over five seeds the shuffled and random graphs matched the fly and every fixed graph beat the parameter-matched network: the substrate carries the computation. On 300 identical records the fly matched the engine's tier 84% of the time; the four models, 20% to 45%. To our knowledge, as of 20 September 2026, the first reported use of a whole central nervous system connectome to score the trustworthiness of health data. Published on Zenodo (CC BY 4.0, concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22865214) with the synthetic dataset (10.5281/zenodo.22865020) and code (github.com/evil-robot/supertruth-connectome-public). 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 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Social networks were originally designed for biological intelligence: humans talking to humans, constrained by attention, memory, and time. In their early forms, conversation could wander. 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 Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT In October 2007, I stood before a room of advertising majors at Temple University's School of Communications and delivered a lecture titled "Persuading Machines." The iPhone had been on sale for three months. 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 Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT 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 Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT 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 Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT 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 Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT 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 Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT 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 Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT What Would the Apostle Paul Write to the Americans? A Reflection on AI, Misinformation, and the Age of Fragmentation My brilliant and trusted friend Dustin Raney posed an intriguing question: What … 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 Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT 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 Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT 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 Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT Millions are turning to RedNote as TikTok faces a ban. But dig deeper, and the reality of this Chinese platform becomes far more insidious.