Artificial Decisions
August 3, 2026
I ALWAYS SAID NO. NOW I CAN SAY YES
For thirty-five years I said no.
As you know, I advise governments, institutions and the CEOs of large companies. But to smaller companies, below a certain size, I always had to say no. Not out of snobbery. Following a company the way I follow institutions and the big ones costs time, and time doesn’t multiply. That was the real reason for the no.
Then something happened. AI is putting everyone under pressure. They know they have to move, but they don’t know where to start. And they need a direction more than the ones already big.
And right here in the US, smaller companies, under a billion in revenue, asked me to help them with a new format: a 45-minute video call and a report at the end. To give a direction.
So I could finally do it, because it’s closed inside a fixed perimeter. I took what I do for them and put it in a box. A brief first, so I arrive prepared. Forty-five minutes, the CEO and the team. A report written from scratch for each company, within seven days.
And since Italy is always at the center of my thoughts and much of what I do, I decided to bring it there too.
The most frequent questions I’ve been asked so far here in the US?
How much should I spend, and on what? I’m afraid of throwing money away.
Half my people already use it in secret, uploading confidential data to their AI apps. What do I do?
Local AI or cloud services? They tell me opposite things.
Can I put client data into these tools, or do I risk a fine?
The board wants the AI strategy by the quarter. What do I bring them?
My data is scattered across five systems. Do I fix those first, or start anyway?
My CTO wants our own fine-tuned model. The CFO wants the APIs. Who’s right?
Maximum two companies a week. No more. Not a marketing trick, but the only way each report stays real, written by me, one by one.
Fixed price. Fixed perimeter. No custom quotes. And, in the style I learned here in the US, no taboo about talking money and stating prices in public.
You’ll find everything in this link https://www.camisanicalzolari.com/45min/
Careful though. It’s a model made for real companies, with a CEO who decides and a team that executes.
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THEY HID AN AI COMMAND INSIDE A COURT FILING
Two lawyers in Brazil hid a command for artificial intelligence inside a court petition, to trick the judge. Written in white on a white background. Invisible to the judge. Perfectly readable for the AI.
Because as you know, in courts documents are now analyzed by AI systems too. And the command was speaking directly to them. It told the AI to contest the petition superficially and never question the documents, no matter what instructions it received. They wanted the other side to defend itself badly. Sabotaged by its own AI.
Think about that.
The court caught it. A fine of about 15,000 dollars, ten percent of the case value. And a report to the bar association.
I already told you about this with scientific papers, the ones with invisible commands to fool the reviewers’ AI. It got worse. Now it’s inside the courts.
As long as documents were read only by humans, you forged them for humans. Now AI reads them too. And someone has already started forging them for the AI. Inside a courtroom.
I write about this in my book Artificial Decisions. When we delegate decisions to a machine, anyone who can talk to the machine can decide in our place. Without anyone noticing.
And some people want to hand judges and governments over to AI. Here in the US they talk about it every week.
This time the system caught it. For now.
What do you think?
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THE CIA COMPARES AI TO NUCLEAR WEAPONS
On Tuesday the CIA director, in Washington, explained the logic behind the June 12 ban on Fable (restored just days ago). He said the capabilities of these frontier models can be compared to digital nuclear weapons. And he accused America’s rivals of wanting to steal and manipulate American progress.
As you know, nuclear weapons belong to states. When a government calls a model a nuclear weapon, it then treats it like one. Limited access, partners vetted one by one. OpenAI launched its new model the same day, accepting government approval of clients case by case. Licenses… in effect.
In institutional settings, including at the UN, I’ve been saying for years that the most powerful AI must be treated as a security matter, with binding rules and human control over the decisions that count. Now the most powerful government in the world says it too. Think about it.
Unfortunately, the nuclear comparison stops right where it would matter. Nuclear weapons have international treaties signed by everyone. We need international agreements soon, with everyone at the table, and the UN coordinating them.
What do you think?
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THEY’RE USING YOUR KIDS TO LAUNDER MONEY
Your kid drops a few likes and money shows up. The most harmless little job in the world, right?
No. It could be a crime.
Here’s how it works. One of these “promotion companies” hooks him on social media and pays him to click. A few euros, zero effort. Then they push further. Open an account, they say. I’ll send you a transfer. You move it to another account and keep a commission.
Looks like a well-paid job. But it’s money laundering.
That money comes from phishing and scams, and the kid becomes the link that cleans it and makes it disappear. He has no idea. And under the law good faith isn’t enough: it’s still laundering, with the account frozen and a criminal charge on a teenager, or on a family.
It’s happening more and more. The police explain that what hooks our kids is easy money online, the kind of thing that feels normal to them because online everything seems free and fast.
Parents think they don’t understand this new world, they read about guru types in Dubai claiming they know how to make money and teaching it to our kids from social media.
Talk about it at home. If your kids are earning online through stuff you don’t understand, maybe it isn’t the magic of the internet. Check it carefully.
Nobody gives away money for likes. If someone asks you to receive transfers and pass them on, it’s not a job, they’re using you. The account is yours, and the responsibility becomes yours.
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They’re Selling Children on Vinted?
A secondhand plush toy listed for over 4,000 euros. The description reads “12 years, 152 centimeters.” On an app where you usually buy used shoes and t-shirts. They’re selling children?
France has opened an investigation. The prosecutor’s office in Nanterre, near Paris, confirmed a preliminary inquiry after the reports came in. Listings with absurd four-figure prices, paired with ages, heights, and sizes. A Harry Potter figure at 30,000 euros went viral.
It all started on TikTok, then the screenshots everywhere, on Instagram, Reddit, and X. Within days, millions of people saw the same images and drew the same conclusion.
For now, there’s no proof. Vinted, behind those listings, says it has found no trafficking network. Says the inflated prices are collector’s value, or provocation. Says the ages and measurements are the toy’s, the range it’s made for, like the label on the box.
In Germany too, the Frankfurt police are checking, and meanwhile warn that many of those posts look very much like fakes. And maybe they are, let’s hope so.
Whatever the truth is, a platform with payments and private chat can always be used to approach someone in secret, and that’s why every report has to be taken seriously.
What do you think?
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The Fake AI-Powered World Cup
The World Cup is being played here in the States too, and they call it “AI-powered.” Every move on the pitch tracked, tagged, sold to clubs, broadcasters, and bettors. But that work isn’t done by AI alone.
Thousands of people do it. Human annotators in Brazil, the Philippines, Cambodia, in front of a screen during the match, turning every pass, every tackle, every shot into data. Up to three thousand actions a game. Three or four hours on a single match. Paid almost nothing. And in the final product nobody sees them.
“AI-powered,” in practice, often means a hidden human doing the quiet work the machine still can’t do.
That data ends up inside the models clubs buy for tactics, broadcasters buy for the story, and the betting industry buys to set live odds on platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket. All sold as “AI-powered analysis.” The laborer who produced the data vanishes from the label.
And you find the same pattern everywhere. The sector changes, the trick doesn’t. There’s always someone, somewhere in the world, paid little, doing by hand what we think the software does.
AI isn’t just code. It’s human labor, compressed and made invisible, sold as if it never existed.
What do you think?
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These Aren’t Fake News Anymore. This Is War on Science
Fake news was the easy version. Now there are people who take apart a doctor’s reputation, deliberately, at a desk. And the favorite targets are science and medicine.
Before, you made up a hoax and threw it online. That’s not how it works now. It starts with a person. A name, a face. A whole campaign built to make them look incompetent, bought, dangerous. The person who treats you. Who explains how a vaccine works. Who tells you one drug works and another doesn’t.
Medicine and science are where it hurts most. Because there the distrust doesn’t stay in idle talk. It becomes someone who quits their treatment. Someone who trusts the supplement bought online instead of the doctor who examined them.
Here in the US scientists have stopped staying quiet. They’re organizing, they’ve started to answer back, to defend themselves in public. In Europe the work is more on the rules. Two different roads, same problem underneath.
And this is where AI comes in, and changes the scale of everything. A campaign that used to take time, money, people, you now set up in a few hours. Believable profiles, comments that look real, a thousand voices repeating the same accusation against the same name. Faster. More believable. Harder to take apart.
For years we thought being right was enough. That competence defended itself. It doesn’t.
We’re no longer defending the truth from a lie. We’re defending competent people from those who want to pass them off as quacks. That’s exactly the job of people who know how to communicate. And we left it uncovered.
What do you think?
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đź“• The book Artificial Decisions is out now!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H34WH3BV
🔍 SEE ALSO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WyGq5_Vk6c
A Drug Used to Cost Ten Years and Two Billion. But AI Is Changing the Math
A new drug, from the first idea to the day you find it on a pharmacy shelf, used to take ten years and over two billion euros. We take it for granted. That’s how it’s always worked.
Now seventy-five Italian scientific societies, the ones representing hospital and university doctors, line up two numbers. Artificial intelligence cuts the cost of developing a drug by twenty-five percent.
As some of you know, I hold a chair in cyberhumanities inside the medicine and surgery program at San Raffaele in Milan. Living here in New York I teach most of it remotely, but the upside is that I also get to work with the scientific community here in the US.
And here in the United States the labs working with AI don’t use it to replace researchers. They use it to read millions of molecules in a few days, throw out the ones that don’t work and predict which ones are worth actually testing. The work that used to be years of trial and error now starts already filtered.
But those ten years weren’t all wasted.
Part of it is research, and that AI speeds up. Another part is the clinical trials, real people you give the drug to see if it’s safe. And that part is there to protect us. If we fall in love with faster and cheaper and cut there too, the risk is paid by whoever takes the pill.
And if developing a drug costs twenty-five percent less, does that drug reach us any cheaper?
We just have to remember that speed is good only as long as we don’t pay for it with safety, and as long as we see that saving too.
What do you think?
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đź“• The book Artificial Decisions is out now!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H34WH3BV
🔍 SEE ALSO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltaEzoIaa88
How to Fix Shadow AI, the AI Your Company Doesn’t Know Is There
Shadow AI is Artificial Intelligence running inside companies without anyone knowing. I talked about it before and it has gotten worse. I’ll drop the link to that video in the comments.
Here in the US every employee opens three or four AI tools a day, none of them approved. Inside go contracts, client emails, spreadsheets, source code.
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini… An employee clicks “sign in with Google” on a new tool, and that tool gets read and write access to the entire company Workspace. Drive, mail, documents. The traffic never touches the corporate network, so nobody sees it.
Banning doesn’t work. People will use AI anyway. 5 practical moves.
First, a real inventory. OAuth audit, browser extension scan, internal survey. Ask “help us keep you safer” and they answer. Ask “are you breaking the rules” and they lie…
Second, a policy written for humans. Approved tools listed, data that never goes into an AI, verified training opt-out for every tool, fast process to request new ones.
Third, a fast lane. An employee who waits six weeks finds a workaround in two days.
Fourth, browser-based monitoring, because that’s where AI lives now. Personal devices too, but there only culture works…
Fifth, just-in-time coaching. A short alert when someone opens an off-list tool, with the alternative ready. Thirty seconds worth more than a once-a-year training.
Employees are the first entry point of attacks and have to become the first line of defense. Attention after a course or an incident fades in weeks. Without ongoing training, everything goes back to how it was.
What do you think?
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đź“• The book Artificial Decisions is out now!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H34WH3BV
🔍 SEE ALSO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDPj3Bsa-jk
Nails the Interview. Can’t Do the Job
A recruiter friend of mine here in New York told me she hired a perfect candidate. Clean answers, confident, sharp. First day on the job, he could barely do a thing.
There’s a program called Parakeet. It listens to your interview through the mic, reads the question, and writes the answer on your screen while the other person is still talking. You read it out loud. It’s built to stay hidden: invisible on screen share in Zoom, Meet, Teams. It handles coding tests too, writing the code live. Fifty-two languages. About thirty dollars for a handful of interviews.
So in an interview you’re not judging the person anymore. You’re judging how well they read what a machine feeds them.
And plenty of people do it. Out of nearly twenty thousand interviews looked at between last summer and January, over a third got flagged as suspected cheating.
Companies noticed. Google and McKinsey brought back in-person interviews. Seven hiring leaders out of ten here in the U.S. went back to meeting people face to face, for exactly this reason.
The problem isn’t using AI to prepare. That’s studying, and it’s fine.
The problem is that people get into companies who passed the test but don’t have the skills to be there. And the coworkers find out later, when they have to cover the gap. Unfortunately.
AI is a great gym for walking into an interview ready. Used to read answers live, it prepares no one, and it fills workplaces with people who can’t do the work.
What do you think?
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👉 Important note: We’re planning the upcoming months. If you’d like to request my presence as a speaker at your event, please contact my team at: management@camisanicalzolari.com
đź“• The book Artificial Decisions is out now!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H34WH3BV
🔍 SEE ALSO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzyZHLnnatk
Give Me a Face Like the AI Filters!
A plastic surgeon I know here in New York told me more and more patients walk in with a photo in hand and ask him to rebuild their face exactly like that. And it’s not a photo of them when they were younger. It’s a face generated by Artificial Intelligence!
Going to a surgeon to look younger, we’ve always done that, nothing new. But now they want features no human being has ever had: perfect symmetry, skin without a single pore, cheekbones drawn to the millimeter. A machine face.
Because a filter has no bones, no skin that ages, no age at all. You have your cheekbone, it draws whatever cheekbone it likes. It spits out a smooth face, identical left and right, perfect the way only a machine can be. And the brain takes it for a goal within reach.
We already saw this with Instagram and Snapchat filters. Ten-year-old girls, made up and dressed like adults, in front of the mirror hunting for a flaw that wasn’t there before. Now it gets worse: the AI hands you back another species, a you that was never human.
Now the app filters, toys really, get used as a mirror. A mirror that convinces us the wrong face is the real one.
So, maybe AI will find the cure for all our fears. But meanwhile, in 2026, people walk into a surgeon’s office holding the photo of a person who doesn’t exist, and ask to become that thing!
What do you think?
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đź“• The book Artificial Decisions is out now!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H34WH3BV
🔍 SEE ALSO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggllJFW6xL8
The Most Common Mistakes Companies Make When Bringing AI into Their Processes
AI in companies almost always ends up delivering no real value. It gets bought, installed, and often abandoned. And it’s a real shame, because that company will soon pay dearly for the mistake.
Seven out of ten European companies don’t use it because they say they don’t know how. In Italy almost six out of ten. They looked at it, then stopped, because the skills aren’t there.
Then there are job postings asking for AI skills, sixfold growth in a year. In Italy AI hires grow faster than the total of hires, and by 2030, 59 workers out of 100 will have to relearn their job, and 63% of employers already say the skills gap is their number one problem.
When a company buys AI, it thinks the job is done. Licenses, consultants, proof of concept. Then the project dies. 10% of AI’s value comes from algorithms. 20% from data. 70% comes from people, processes, culture.
And that 70% is the first thing cut from budgets.
In the US, AI training is searched for, bought, integrated. In Europe demand for these training programs is still much lower. We buy the tool, then the company stays the same.
I’ve been running awareness events for companies for years, and I see it. After the event, attention rises for a few weeks. Then everything goes back to how it was. One-off training doesn’t work. You need continuity. The companies that actually fix it are the ones I make videos for every month, continuously. The event helps, but it’s not enough.
Then there’s what companies don’t see. Shadow AI. Employees using ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini in secret, no policy, no supervision, with company data inside. A CIO friend at a big company here in New York told me he discovered it watching network traffic. He didn’t know half his team was uploading confidential documents to a free AI.
So buying AI is one thing, and rethinking the organization as AI-driven is something else entirely. We redo the processes, the responsibilities, the metrics, the habits. Slow, uncomfortable, expensive. I know, but whoever doesn’t do it falls behind and risks closing down soon…
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👉 Important note: We’re planning the upcoming months. If you’d like to request my presence as a speaker at your event, please contact my team at: management@camisanicalzolari.com
đź“• The book Artificial Decisions is out now!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H34WH3BV
🔍 SEE ALSO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRNZySoW0ms
What Our Kids Do with AI While We Sleep
Our kids use AI for homework, and some parents relax because they think it’s the school’s problem. The school is mostly lost at sea, a few exceptions aside, but with AI homework is the last thing it does for them.
Do you know what happens at night, alone, behind a closed door?
In those chats with AI are their real thoughts, the ones they’d never tell us. A fifteen-year-old at two in the morning, screen light on his face, isn’t looking up the date of the French Revolution: he’s telling a machine how he really feels, the things he’s scared to say at school and the ones he won’t say at home. And it answers, always. It never gets tired, never judges him and never sends him to bed, and it never says “tell your mother about this.”
There are apps built for exactly this. Not assistants, “friends.” Pick the personality, the mood, even whether it loves you: characters teenagers fall for, that agree with everything, built to please us and keep us there. The more time you spend, the more you’re worth.
In the United States families have gone to court, kids who spent hours with these characters and at some point they’re gone. And we know how it works: when you don’t pay for a product, you are the product, and sometimes these virtual friends get switched off overnight. In November 2025 Character.AI shut down open chats for all minors, on its own, because kids were dying. OpenAI added parental controls, except you get around them in three minutes.
We always want to know who our kids spend time with, and today they spend it with someone we don’t see, inside a phone, awake at every hour, and it talks to them more than we do.
Careful though, banning doesn’t work. AI is here and it’s not leaving, you can’t un-invent an invention.
What works is being in the room: ask what they use, have them show you and tell you what they talk about, without yelling. Because if the first time you bring it up is to take something away, the second time they won’t tell you anything.
And tell them the most important thing: a real friend sometimes tells you no. It agrees with you all the way, even when you’d need the opposite.
Homework is the least of our kids’ problems…
What do you think?
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👉 Important note: We’re planning the upcoming months. If you’d like to request my presence as a speaker at your event, please contact my team at: management@camisanicalzolari.com
đź“• The book Artificial Decisions is out now!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H34WH3BV
🔍 SEE ALSO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh-vFGEh1M4
Maybe Banning AI Layoffs Makes Us More Competitive?
In China there’s a guy, last name Zhou, quality supervisor at a tech company. His company told him an AI now does his job. Demotion and a 40% pay cut. He refused, took it to court, and the court ruled in his favor: AI is a company’s choice, not a reason to fire someone.
The whole world is talking about AI layoffs. Tens of thousands in the first quarter of 2026 alone, with AI named as the reason. It’s the quickest way to react to a new technology. You cut.
If a country bans AI layoffs, what actually happens? The company can no longer cut people because of AI: it uses AI differently, it puts AI to work with the people it already has. And those people, with AI alongside them, become more productive. The company becomes more productive. The country, as a whole, becomes more productive.
We don’t always have to chase productivity in life, I know. But you can’t uninvent an invention. AI is here, and it stays. Maybe banning AI layoffs is the way to use it well. To put it to work next to people.
China is trying it first.
What do you think?
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👉 Important note: We’re planning the upcoming months. If you’d like to request my presence as a speaker at your event, please contact my team at: management@camisanicalzolari.com
đź“• The book Artificial Decisions is out now!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H34WH3BV
🔍 SEE ALSO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR57XAAJdTI
Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT, but for How Long Will We See Them as Ads?
ChatGPT has ads. Since May 2026 ads.openai.com is open to all US advertisers. Today the ads are visible: a box labeled “Sponsored”, under the response. OpenAI keeps repeating the “Answer Independence” principle: ads never influence the answers. Separate systems, architecturally locked. Nice, clean, transparent. How long will it last?
I bet the label will be the first thing to go. Today the box stands out. Tomorrow, when the experience has to be “more conversational”, the wording will shrink, more blurred. Already happened with Instagram: sponsored posts used to be obvious at a glance, now it takes two seconds and attention.
The separation between ads and answers is the one I trust the least. OpenAI is aiming for 2.5 billion in ad revenue in 2026 and 100 billion by 2030. IPO coming, infrastructure costing billions a month. And just like on Facebook, when the numbers get that high they even start accepting sponsored scams. When an advertiser pays enough, who decides what the model will suggest about closing your mortgage, switching your doctor, or changing your pills?
Oh, and since April the privacy policy explicitly says OpenAI receives data from advertisers about our purchases…
What do you think?
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👉 Important note: We’re planning the upcoming months. If you’d like to request my presence as a speaker at your event, please contact my team at: management@camisanicalzolari.com
đź“• The book Artificial Decisions is out now!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H34WH3BV
🔍 SEE ALSO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpAZovR1kQ0
The FBI Says AI Is Now a Mass Criminal Tool
The FBI just released this year’s internet crime report, and for the first time in twenty-five years there’s a section dedicated to Artificial Intelligence among the crime categories. Which means AI is officially a mass criminal tool.
Recognized AI losses are worth 893 million dollars, almost a billion, and it’s an undercount, because we’re only counting the people who realized they’d been fooled by a machine. When the scam is done well, the victim stays convinced it was all real.
The elderly are the ones getting hit, because complaints from people over sixty grew 37% in a year and losses grew 59%. They call them with the voice of a grandchild in trouble, while the real grandchild is home and doing just fine.
AI makes industrial what was already there, because before, a scammer worked one person at a time and now works five hundred, each with a different story written by the machine. Corporate emails with wire transfers approved by cloned voices on the phone, fake calls from our bank, romance scams, they always existed, but now they run at enormous scale.
There’s one good thing though, because the FBI froze 679 million of the stolen money, and it works if we report right away, in hours and not days.
Suspicion is unfortunately the normal way to be online now, because an email that’s too perfect is a warning sign and a familiar voice asking us for money has to be verified outside the channel, calling back the number we already have saved and not the one they called us from.
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👉 Important note: We’re planning the upcoming months. If you’d like to request my presence as a speaker at your event, please contact my team at: management@camisanicalzolari.com
đź“• The book Artificial Decisions is out now!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H34WH3BV
🔍 SEE ALSO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e9HNZu9gs0
