Proactive engineering — beyond the hype.
AI has been hyped since 1956.
Markets have always seen bubbles.
Surveillance capitalism has alternatives.
Try yourself. Do not just follow the hype.
Simple statements to navigate us through uncertain waters.
Linked to trusted source or experience.
No one knows if or when machines will become smarter than humans in all ways. Current AI is powerful pattern-matching, not general intelligence — it has no goals, no desires, no will. The urgent risks from AI are not robot uprisings, but real harms happening now: job displacement, surveillance, and concentrated power in few hands.
Fear of AI extinction is not scientific consensus — it's a minority view amplified by interested parties. Many who warn loudest about "existential risk" also stand to gain from positioning AI as world-changing. Healthy skepticism about both AI hype and AI doom is the rational position.
AI will change work, not end it. Every major technology has eliminated some jobs while creating others — the pattern holds. The real question is not "will there be jobs?" but "who will benefit from the transition?" — and that's a political choice, not a technological inevitability.
When a service is free, you are the product. Your attention, your behavior, and your preferences are harvested and sold. True digital independence requires tools you control — and that's possible today.
Most AI companies will fail, like most companies in every technology wave. The infrastructure providers — chips, cloud, energy — tend to profit more reliably than the application layer. Beware narratives that conflate "AI is transformative" with "this AI stock will go up."
Stock prices are dominated by noise — no model predicts the future. The honest goal of quantitative investing is finding small statistical edges, validated out-of-sample, that compound over many trades. Anyone promising more is selling something.
We don't just talk about issues. We try, build and validate.
A privacy-respecting metasearch engine that aggregates results from 70+ search services without tracking you. No profiles. No ads. No filter bubbles.
Your queries are your business.
A personal investment workbench that uses Random Forest machine learning to find statistical edges — not predictions. Rigorous out-of-sample validation. Traffic-light deployment criteria. Honest about uncertainty.
We find edges. We don't pretend to see the future.
A peer-to-peer search engine that doesn't depend on central servers. Build your own search index, contribute to a distributed network, own your search infrastructure.
Search that no one can shut down.
Prosilient is an independent IT lab based in Germany.
We operate at the intersection of artificial intelligence, investment, and digital sovereignty. Rethinking, testing and rebuilding tools that embody our values.
The name combines "proactive" and "resilient": building our own experience, opinion and proactive position helps build resilience against fashionable or manipulating narratives.
This is not a company seeking scale. It's a lab to understand.