With Kris Krüg

Independent technology journalismVancouver & beyond

The reporting desks

Intelligent machines

AI, robots, open hardware. What works, what breaks, and who gets a say.

Generated illustration · Kris Krüg

Creative futuresField report

I Made Claude Paint My Portrait in MS Paint. No Scripts.

Four sessions, a hand mixed palette, and one rule: brushes and clicking only. No scripting the canvas. The failures taught me more than the finished picture did.

Photo · Kris Krüg

The living internetEssay

You Can’t Rent a Social Licence

Students brought pots and pans to the Nest. Canada’s AI ambitions need something harder to buy: a social licence, earned with the people expected to live with the rollout.

In photographs