David Colburn

Posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 9:26 am I’ve written before about the dangers of artificial intelligence and the large language models powering systems like ChatGPT. These systems can produce writing that sounds polished, persuasive, and completely believable while quietly inventing facts, sources, and entire realities with the confidence of a guy at the end of the bar explaining how he once almost landed a world-record walleye.

Posted Thursday, April 23, 2026 10:36 am When we hear the word “agent,” most of us picture a person. A real estate agent shows houses. An insurance agent helps you choose a policy. A Hollywood agent lines up jobs for actors. In each case, it’s someone you hire to take care of something for you, to handle a job so you don’t have to manage every detail yourself. Now take that same idea and swap out the person for software.

Posted Thursday, March 26, 2026 10:39 am In January, Minnesota became the most dangerous state in the country for working journalists. Not New York. Not California. Minnesota. As federal immigration enforcement ramped up under the Trump administration and protests escalated across the Twin Cities, reporters covering those events were hit with projectiles, exposed to chemical agents, and pushed back or detained while doing their jobs. That’s not a debate about press freedom.