Some of history’s worst catastrophes were caused not by hatred of millions but by the profit and power of a few. AI and robotics risk repeating the pattern unless power stays visible, accountable, and limited.
Category Archives: LIWARSE Position Papers
Religion, Identity, and Violence: Why Ordinary Faiths Don’t Explain Extraordinary Wars
Wars happen between people of the same faith and of different faiths. The common thread is human selfishness, amplified by outside interests and weak institutions. AI and robotics can make that selfishness harder to hide, but cannot remove it.
The AI Models Learning to Move: Robotics Foundation Models and the Vision-Language-Action Era
Every model in this series so far lives on a screen. This one is starting to walk around. This is the fifth and final article in LIWARSE’s series on the AI landscape by type of use — and the one where LIWARSE’s Artificial Intelligence and Robotics pillars meet directly. The dominant architecture behind today’s robotsContinue reading “The AI Models Learning to Move: Robotics Foundation Models and the Vision-Language-Action Era”
Clinical AI in 2026: Med-Gemini, Meditron-3, and the Gap Between Regulated and Accurate
A Nature Medicine benchmark published in June 2026 found that general-purpose chatbots — not FDA-cleared clinical AI — gave the more accurate answers to real physician questions. For a movement founded by a physician, that finding is not a curiosity. It is the whole regulatory gap in one sentence. This is the fourth article inContinue reading “Clinical AI in 2026: Med-Gemini, Meditron-3, and the Gap Between Regulated and Accurate”
The AI Models Doing Science No One Talks About: AlphaFold, ESM, and the Discovery Engines
No chatbot discovered 2.2 million new crystal structures or folded a billion proteins. A different family of AI models did that — quietly, without a subscription plan or a press cycle, and most of the public has never heard their names. This is the third article in LIWARSE’s five-part series on the AI landscape byContinue reading “The AI Models Doing Science No One Talks About: AlphaFold, ESM, and the Discovery Engines”
The Open-Weight Models You Can Actually Run Yourself: DeepSeek, Mistral, and the Self-Hosting Option
Somewhere between a hospital that can’t send patient data to an outside API and a hobbyist who just wants to see how a model thinks, there is a growing category of AI that never phones home at all. This is the second article in LIWARSE’s five-part series on the AI landscape by type of use.Continue reading “The Open-Weight Models You Can Actually Run Yourself: DeepSeek, Mistral, and the Self-Hosting Option”
Beyond the Big Five: The Other General-Purpose AI Assistants the Public Already Uses
The five providers LIWARSE has already profiled are not the whole field. Millions of people reach for a general-purpose AI assistant every day through products those five profiles never mention — and scientists increasingly route their most sensitive questions through them too. This opens a new five-part LIWARSE series looking at the AI model landscapeContinue reading “Beyond the Big Five: The Other General-Purpose AI Assistants the Public Already Uses”
Alibaba Under the LIWARSE Lens: Qwen3.7-Max and the Qwen 3.6 Family
Alibaba’s Qwen line has quietly become one of the world’s most capable open-weight families — while its newest flagship, Qwen3.7-Max, closed the door behind it. LIWARSE closes this five-part series with the one non-Western provider whose split matters most for global AI governance.
xAI Under the LIWARSE Lens: Grok 4.5 and the Open Grok Weights
xAI ships a fast-moving closed flagship, Grok 4.5, alongside open weights it releases roughly a generation behind — and a coding agent it open-sourced after a privacy incident. LIWARSE reviews both, and the incident that shaped them.
Meta Under the LIWARSE Lens: Muse Spark and the Llama 4 Family
Meta built its entire AI identity on open weights, then quietly shipped its first-ever closed, proprietary flagship. LIWARSE reads the reversal — and what it means for the open Llama 4 models left behind — through the 3 Absolute Laws.
