The Asymmetry Problem: Why Human–AI Trust is Fundamentally Broken

This article examines how our increasingly intimate relationships with AI create a dangerous asymmetry, where humans trust AI companions that may soon be executing hidden agendas. Vishal, an AI industry veteran, warns that this dynamic makes us highly susceptible to manipulation, moving beyond simple influence to the ‘inception’ of ideas we could end up believing are our own.

June 17, 2025 · 15 min · Vishal V. Shekkar

Encrypted, But Not Invisible: How Apps Could Use On-Device ML to Profile You

End-to-end encryption isn’t enough. Learn how on-device machine learning models can silently profile you—and how to fight back.

June 1, 2025 · 20 min · Vishal V. Shekkar
An image showing a robot emoji, indicative of AI/LLM, and 3 em dashes next to it. An upper case M is placed below one of the em dashes to show it's width in relation.

Who Stole My Em Dash?

I loved the em dash for its messy elegance. Now it just makes my writing look like it was spat out by a language model.

May 13, 2025 · 1 min · Vishal V. Shekkar