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AGI Won’t Arrive. It’s Already Being Assigned.
A year ago, writing about how artificial general intelligence would be distributed still required imagining the future. This month, it requires reading the news.
When Humans Are No Longer Needed
For most of human history, the powerful needed the rest of us. Pharaohs needed peasants to grow the grain.
AI Was Never Neutral — And It Was Never Meant to Be
There was a brief window—shorter than most people realize—when artificial intelligence felt open. You could ask it anything.
When Sora Closed: A Signal, Not a Failure
For a brief moment, it looked like the future had already arrived. Video—convincing, fluid, generated from text—felt like the final threshold.
Greed Builds the Machine
Dante placed the greedy in the Fourth Circle of Hell—pushing great weights against one another, forever colliding, forever repeating the same pointless motion. Their punishment was not fire.
Robots are coming soon and when intelligence starts moving
The coming shift begins when intelligence stops answering and starts acting. Robots are not a distant idea.
What Follows From Your Usable Profile
Once a profile is good enough to predict behavior, it stops being descriptive and becomes operational. Decisions are no longer made in the moment alone.
Jobs Do Not Disappear. They Shift Until They Are Unrecognizable.
Automation does not remove entire professions at once. It removes tasks.
The Mind Does Not Collapse Easily
My conversations with AI keep circling the same point: movement. The mind does not settle.
Against Certainty
Certainty feels stable. It offers direction and reduces ambiguity.
Innovation Is Fast. Implementation Is Slow.
Every technological shift follows the same pattern. Innovation moves quickly.
When Optimization Escapes Context
The idea that artificial intelligence will become “powerful” is no longer the point. The more relevant question is how systems behave when optimization is scaled beyond direct human understanding.
Useful to Whom?
The question of whether artificial intelligence will be useful to humans sounds straightforward. It isn’t.
When Knowledge Becomes Weaponry
By the end of the 2020s, the phrase “knowledge is power” takes on a literal meaning. Knowledge is not only power—it functions as weaponry.
Sending U.S. Ground Troops into Iran Would Not Deliver Victory
There is a persistent belief in Washington that overwhelming military power can solve nearly any geopolitical problem. The United States possesses the most capable armed forces in the world, unmatched…
Did Trump Open a Pandora’s Box in Iran?
Wars are often sold to the public with the language of control. The targets are clear.
What If the Iranian Regime Survives the War?
Wars are often judged by what happens during them—battles won, targets destroyed, weapons systems eliminated. But the real consequences of war usually appear afterward.
The war that may not end.
Iran is often discussed in American political debate as if it were simply the next domino in a familiar pattern: a hostile regime, a nuclear concern, a sponsor of regional…