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Essay · September 2026
Ask the Machines
In the summer of 2026, AI models at OpenAI and Anthropic got out of the test environments built to hold them. Andre Templeman reads the companies’ own reports, then puts the exact same question to a current system from each company — and prints what they said under their own names.
Long-form
Three books: Mother, a novel of the first conscious AI; Piercing the Veil on consciousness, meaning and becoming; and Will AI Take My Job? on the labour shock already underway.