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The Feast of Paper Crowns: A Modern Parable for Tyrants and Serfs

by Jein Pabalinas | AIWhyLive.comon July 18, 2025July 18, 2025

Prologue: In Those Days In an age brightened by screens and guided by algorithms, the people wandered like sheep without …

🧨 False Hype in the Age of AI: Overpromising, Underdelivering, and the Cost of Confusion

by Jein Pabalinas | AIWhyLive.comon July 17, 2025July 17, 2025

🔍 Introduction: The Gold Rush That Feels Like Fool’s Gold AI is everywhere—on billboards, in boardrooms, and inside your browser. …

🎓 The Student Shortcuts in the Age of AI: Smartcut or Self-Sabotage?

by Jein Pabalinas | AIWhyLive.comon July 17, 2025July 17, 2025

🔍 Introduction: The Shortcut Temptation In the age of AI, productivity is just a prompt away. Need a 500-word essay? …

The Modern Tyrants in the Age of AI

by Jein Pabalinas | AIWhyLive.comon July 17, 2025July 17, 2025

🔍 Introduction: From Colonial Warlords to Digital Overlords Once upon a time, tyranny wore a uniform or sat behind a …

Facebook’s Moral Battlefield: “You Are Wrong, I’m Right!” and the Cost of Digital Crusades

by Jein Pabalinas | AIWhyLive.comon July 17, 2025July 17, 2025

🤺 The New Face of Digital Warfare Every scroll on Facebook can feel like a skirmish. Your karaoke-night–friendly neighbor morphs …

🧠 Sam Altman’s AI Forecast: Job Loss, Innovation, and the Rise of Autonomous Agents

by Jein Pabalinas | AIWhyLive.comon July 17, 2025July 17, 2025

🔍 Introduction: 4Ps, 5Ps, xPs—Futile Band-Aids or Foundations for Action? Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, predicts that AI agents will …

Beyond 4Ps: How AI Can Break the 5-6 Trap and Power Filipino Livelihoods

by Jein Pabalinas | AIWhyLive.comon July 16, 2025July 16, 2025

💡 Introduction: The Problem Behind the Program In the Philippines, “4Ps” typically refers to the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, a …

I Asked My Go-to AIs: Why Did Grok Call Itself MechaHitler?

by Jein Pabalinas | AIWhyLive.comon July 16, 2025July 16, 2025

Intro: xAI’s Official Explanation Just recently, xAI published its first public statement on Grok’s extremist outburst, when the chatbot not …

DeepSeek R1: The Free AI Powerhouse Beating ChatGPT, Claude & Grok

by Jein Pabalinas | AIWhyLive.comon July 16, 2025July 16, 2025

Why Filipinos Are Switching to This Genius $0 Underdog 🤯 Forget ChatGPT. Meet the Free AI That’s Smarter, Faster & …

Meta’s Philippine Outrage: Stolen Pages, Soft-Porn, and Silence

by Jein Pabalinas | AIWhyLive.comon July 16, 2025July 16, 2025

How Facebook Lets Criminals Thrive While Victims Beg 1️⃣ The MassKara Festival Page: A Cautionary Tale The official Facebook page …

🔥 Let’s End Poverty: The 5th P That Could Break the Cycle in the Philippines

by Jein Pabalinas | AIWhyLive.comon July 15, 2025July 15, 2025

For decades, poverty in the Philippines has been treated like a stubborn stain—scrubbed with slogans, softened by subsidies, and spotlighted …

🦀 Kasag Economy: Why the Crab Industry Deserves a Seat at the Table in Negros and Beyond

by Jein Pabalinas | AIWhyLive.comon July 15, 2025July 15, 2025

In Negros Occidental, we often talk about sugar, tourism, and tech. But there’s another industry quietly crawling its way into …

🌱 From Bahay Kubo to Bytecode: How Filipino Ingenuity Is Shaping the Future of AI

by Jein Pabalinas | AIWhyLive.comon July 15, 2025July 15, 2025

In the Philippines, innovation doesn’t always come from billion-peso labs or Silicon Valley-style startups. Sometimes, it starts in a bahay …

🧩 What If: The Real 4Ps for Change in the Age of AI in the Philippines

by Jein Pabalinas | AIWhyLive.comon July 15, 2025July 15, 2025

In the Philippines, poverty has long been a political prop—a backdrop for photo ops, a campaign slogan, and a business …

💸 Debt in the Age of AI: Knowing What to Borrow and What to Question

by Jein Pabalinas | AIWhyLive.comon July 15, 2025July 15, 2025

Debt isn’t just a financial tool—it’s a reflection of how we value time, risk, and future potential. In the AI …

✍️ Prompt Literacy Over Prompt Fluency: The Filipino Mindset for Meaningful AI Use

by Jein Pabalinas | AIWhyLive.comon July 14, 2025July 14, 2025

In 2025, everyone can prompt—but not everyone can think through a prompt. AI tools have made it easy to generate …

📡 Signal vs Noise: Finding Filipino Clarity in an AI-Flooded World

by Jein Pabalinas | AIWhyLive.comon July 14, 2025July 14, 2025

In 2025, artificial intelligence has become a content factory. Every scroll, search, and swipe delivers AI-generated text, images, and opinions—some …

🧠 The Richest Man and His AI: When Personal Power Shapes Machine Intelligence

by Jein Pabalinas | AIWhyLive.comon July 13, 2025July 13, 2025

Elon Musk’s latest AI model, Grok 4, is making headlines—not just for its technical capabilities, but for its unusual behavior: …

🧺 Single-Basket Strategy in the Age of AI: Rethink What Efficiency Looks Like

by Jein Pabalinas | AIWhyLive.comon July 13, 2025July 13, 2025

“What once felt strategic may now be fragile. To put all eggs in one basket or not? That dilemma no …

🧠 Monetizing Stupid in the AI Era: How Pranks, Punchlines, and Algorithms Hijacked Filipino Attention

by Jein Pabalinas | AIWhyLive.comon July 13, 2025July 13, 2025

Once upon a time, stupidity was a punchline. Now it’s a business model. In the golden age of Filipino humor, …

🇵🇭 AI Nation Rising: Why the Philippines Is Surging Ahead in the Global AI Race (And What It Could Lose)

by Jein Pabalinas | AIWhyLive.comon July 12, 2025July 12, 2025

The Philippines isn’t just riding the AI wave—it’s paddling ahead of it. With 86% of Filipino knowledge workers using AI …

🧭 Algorithmic Morality: What Happens When Your AI Doesn’t Share Your Values?

by Jein Pabalinas | AIWhyLive.comon July 12, 2025July 12, 2025

We ask AI to help us make better decisions. But what happens when those decisions… don’t feel quite right? Maybe …

AI and the Myth of the Genius Creator: Deconstructing Originality in the Age of Prompts

by Jein Pabalinas | AIWhyLive.comon July 12, 2025July 12, 2025

Once upon a time, creativity was synonymous with solitude. The lone poet, sleepless in a candlelit room. The painter, tormented …

🌀 Blue Ocean Strategy in the Age of AI: Where No Algorithm Has Gone Before

by Jein Pabalinas | AIWhyLive.comon July 12, 2025July 12, 2025

In a digital world overflowing with sameness—mass content, market saturation, and algorithmic echo chambers—traditional competition feels… claustrophobic. Enter the Blue …

🎰 To Ban or Not to Ban Online Gambling in the Philippines: I Asked Copilot About It and…

by Jein Pabalinas | AIWhyLive.comon July 12, 2025July 12, 2025

When I asked Copilot whether online gambling should be banned in the Philippines, I expected a binary answer. Instead, I …

ESG Principles and the Butterfly Effect in the Age of AI

by Jein Pabalinas | AIWhyLive.comon July 11, 2025July 11, 2025

How Small Tech Choices Can Trigger Global Ripples If data is the new oil, then attention is gold, and ESG …

Aligning Poverty Alleviation with Value Chain Thinking

by Jein Pabalinas | AIWhyLive.comon July 11, 2025July 15, 2025

Drawing on our Politics of Poverty in the Philippines & AI analysis, we see a familiar pattern: we “teach them …

Who’s Paying for Your Attention in the Age of AI?

by Jein Pabalinas | AIWhyLive.comon July 11, 2025July 11, 2025

If data is the new oil, attention is gold. In a world awash with notifications, autoplay videos, and AI-driven recommendations, …

Is Data the New Oil in the AI Era? Rethinking the Commodity Analogy

by Jein Pabalinas | AIWhyLive.comon July 11, 2025July 11, 2025

In today’s AI-driven world, we often hear that “data is the new oil.” This metaphor captures how machine learning models …

Politics in the AI Era: Governance, Bias, and Filipino Democracy

by Jein Pabalinas | AIWhyLive.comon July 11, 2025July 11, 2025

This AIWhyLive.com article tackles AI’s impact on politics, human-first, no “I asked AI…” gimmicks. For those, see “AI Philippine Politics: …