It's been a long time.
Sorry for the long delay in updating. .
Suddenly,
Are you using AI?
This time, I would like to touch on this world from a slightly different angle than usual.
(I wanted to write more softly, but the sentences ended up being a bit cluttered. Sorry...)
Cutting-edge intelligence disappeared overnight
Anthropic's latest AI model "Claude Fable 5", which was announced on June 10, 2026, was suspended for all users in just three days.
The reason is due to compliance with US export control regulations.
According to Anthropic's official statement:
What the U.S. government feared most was not that the model had caused an autonomous rebellion, but that it had discovered an unmodified route that would allow a malicious third party to easily disable (jailbreak) the human-installed security filters with specific prompts.
In other words, even if the AI itself has no malicious intent,
The risk of AI being used as a weapon by someone with malicious intent has exceeded current cybersecurity tolerances.
This is a human problem, not an AI problem.
And one more thing.
What this series of news has brought to our attention is not only the pros and cons of technology.
It was proof of the overwhelming fragility of Internet systems and cloud-based services that could disappear like fog overnight with a single order from a country's government, such as ``unplugging the electrical outlet.''
Swinging back from digital to physical
For the past few years, I myself have found AI to be a powerful supporter in both my work and personal life, and I have benefited greatly from it.
It is an undeniable, extremely useful tool (to the point of no return).
However, what we are currently witnessing is a reality in which the digital world, which was supposed to be able to expand infinitely, has shaken its own system due to its speed and has been forced to forcibly draw boundaries.
In other words, in a sense,
This means that the scalability of digital technology has reached its ceiling.
The digital world's ``endless copying and generation, maximizing efficiency and speed'' nature seemed compatible with capitalism, which is premised on growth.
However, with the advent of technology (super AI like Fable 5) that can easily destroy the system infrastructure in the first place, we have entered an era in which the only way to prevent this is through regulation.
This can no longer be called true freedom.
It's like they've caged a monster they've created, but they can't kill it.
This is exactly what Fable is.
When faced with this uncertainty, our vector of interest returns from the ``digital world'' to the ``physical world with a tangible feel,'' which may be said to be an extremely natural and instinctive sense of balance as living beings.
Recently, there has been a strange increase in the number of people around me who are taking up farming and field work as a hobby.
The act of eating vegetables that you have grown yourself.
There is a ``certainty'' to the cyclical life.
The value of physical experiences that can only be found here and now, such as the weight of matter, the feel of the earth, the taste of tomatoes, the vivid colors, and the aroma of tea being brewed right in front of you, will emerge stronger than ever before.
Everything that exists in the physical world is a "unique phenomenon" that cannot be replicated.
Humans are always begging for things they don't have.
(The future technology = artificial intelligence that we once dreamed of will be like this once it becomes a reality)
We, as organic life forms,
They share the same space and vibrate in the same air.
Go beyond the superficial meaning of words and perceive the other person's appearance and presence.
Such physical communications cannot be hacked or stopped by export control regulations.
However, this is not a nostalgic idea of ``let's throw away digital and go back to the past.''
We will need to update our hybrid mentality, which allows us to use digital convenience and externally augmented intelligence (AI) as tools, while firmly grounding the center of gravity of our lives and our final output in "physical reality."
Redefining the cutting edge: What truly lasts
I believe that because the digital world has reached a technological singularity, it can no longer become the most cutting-edge technology in itself.
Rather, at the other end of the spectrum, the handiwork of craftsmen, traditional aesthetics, and activities rooted in the local climate are beginning to shine as ``the most advanced and robust aesthetics of life.''
Even if we lose everything, we can rise again.
Precisely because we live in an age where encoded information drifts adrift due to its lightness, we need to once again carefully cultivate the reality that we can touch with our own hands.
I am acutely aware of the ``waves of the times'' where the way we experience wealth and happiness is changing dramatically as the cost of implementing what we desire has come down.
At QUTOTEN., we would like to identify the strongest and most beautiful things and face the ``certain things'' in our lives.
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