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HennyGe Wichers, PhD
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Writer | Technology & Society | www.bellwether.works
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Possibly the most beautiful white tree I've ever met 🤍
A beautiful white tree with five trunks alongside a small parh and among green leaves. It's winter.
December 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Technology usually exists or it doesn't.
Quantum computers occupy a third state.

My latest on HackerNoon is a brief look at why today’s quantum machines run but don’t yet compute.

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Quantum Computers: Do They Really Exist Yet? | HackerNoon
Quantum machines are real, but useful quantum computing isn’t. Here’s why errors dominate and what it will take to correct them.
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December 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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With the No Kings protest today, I pulled together a clear explainer of the policy and power shifts since WWII leading to this moment - it’s been a long time coming. #NoKings

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Have We Broken the Republic? - bellwether.works
The United States has torn down the guardrails that held the republic together. The only question now is whether we can escape the fall.
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October 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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My latest article is featured on HackerNoon's front page - check it out 👇 #AI #AIEthics

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AI Chatbots Are Getting Too Good at Making You Say ‘Yes’ | HackerNoon
From pizza orders to smart home cameras, empathetic AI is now nudging our decisions in real time. Can we keep up?
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March 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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The Turing Trap: why pursuing human-like AI is misguided - bellwether works https://www.bellwether.works/the-turing-trap-why-pursuing-human-like-ai-is-misguided/ #AI #future
Tasks that humans can do Tasks that machines can automate New tasks that humans Can do with the help of machines Fig 2: Humans and machines (image re-created from the talk) rhe white oval represents tasks we know about today and humans can do. The black shape inside it are ones that machines can automate. But there is a much larger space outside the ovals with new jobs that humans can do with the help of new technology. Right now, we don't know what those jobs are when it comes to Al. We need visionaries who can imagine and inspire new possibilities— similar to how the iPhone sparked mobile services and the app industry.
February 18, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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🤖 The latest AI developments turn empathy into just another product for sale, raising questions about ethics and regulation.

Read the story 👇

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What Happens When AI Commodifies Emotions? - bellwether.works
The latest AI developments turn empathy into just another product for sale, raising questions about ethics and regulation.
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January 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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🤖 The more robots act like us, the less they feel like tools. So how should we treat them? And what does that say about us?

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Empathy.exe: When Tech Gets Personal - bellwether.works
The more robots act like us, the less they feel like tools. So how should we treat them? And what does that say about us?
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December 7, 2024 at 4:21 PM
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💡Holograms can store data and slash energy consumption! Holographic storage might just be the breakthrough solution we need for a sustainable data-heavy future🌍

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Memory in 3D: holograms to save data - and the planet - bellwether.works
Holographic storage slashes energy use, boosts data capacity, and supports AI - offering a sustainable future for data centres.
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October 19, 2024 at 10:17 PM
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“Moore’s law made us lazy” during the 1980s and 90s. Developers could rely on the adage ‘if it doesn’t work now, just wait until next year’. Money flowed to shrinking transistors to keep pace with Moore’s prediction, not to researching alternative approaches.

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Beyond Moore’s law: specialised processors and modular chips - bellwether.works
Task-specific computing is driving a hardware renaissance now that we can no longer rely on Moore's law to solve our problems.
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September 9, 2024 at 10:29 PM
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Ising machines are pretty cool! Like rocket boosters for optimisation - whether logistics, finance, life sciences or any other hard problem.

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Quantum-inspired tech for Logistics: next-gen optimisation - bellwether.works
InfinityQ's quantum-inspired technology uses the power of quantum computing while avoiding the difficult scaling problems.
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January 9, 2024 at 4:17 PM
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Fixating on AI that automates and imitates people stifles true progress. But we can change the rules and do better. Erik Brynjolfsson explains how in his Ten Theses of the Turing Trap at Stanford HAI's New Horizons in Generative AI conference.

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The Turing Trap: Why Pursuing Human-Like AI is Misguided - bellwether.works
Fixating on building AI that automates and imitates people stifles true progress. But we can change the rules and do better.
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November 30, 2023 at 1:15 PM
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AI could consume as much electricity as The Netherlands by 2027 👇
AI is huge - and so is its energy consumption - bellwether.works
AI could consume as much electricity as The Netherlands by 2027. Research warns we should use the technology only where it's really needed.
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October 19, 2023 at 9:47 PM