Does Being Rude to AI Make It More Useful? Why Sergey Brin Is Wrong

By Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO Being Polite to LLMs is Not Anthropomorphism, it’s Probability Just a few weeks ago, in a clip from a May 2025 event, Google co-founder Sergey Brin shared a surprising take on interacting with AI models. He claimed that models, not…

Apportionment App Named Igniting Innovation Award Finalist

The Budget Line of Business (LoB) Apportionment Manager has been selected as a finalist for a 2020 Igniting Innovation Award. As a finalist, the Apportionment Manager will be exhibited at the ACT-IAC Igniting Innovation Conference on August 3rd and will compete for the…

Mythbusting — be careful!

In the Washington Post today was a story (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/03/AR2007090300933.html) about research by Norbert Schwartz into what people actually understand when myths are “busted.” (See “Metacognitive Experiences And The Intricacies Of Setting People Straight: Implications For Debiasing And Public Information Campaigns from…