On the Pace of Ruin
What if institutions are structurally incapable of governing AI?
An examination of the structural mismatch between institutional timescales and the pace of AI development.
Shades of Singularity
Eight Essays on the Futures We're Building
and the Ones We're Drifting Into
The most consequential technology in human history is being debated with the wrong questions, defended with remedies that solve nothing, and governed by no one.
These eight essays offer a different way of seeing. Each one opens a window onto one dimension of the AI future - not to predict, but to make visible what the current discourse obscures. Each one dismantles the reassuring answers that dominate the conversation: skill up, regulate, trust the market, become a plumber. And each one names what we actually need - at the scale of nations and the scale of civilization - without pretending to have all the answers.
The future is not a choice among alternatives. It is a painting composed of many shades laid one over another, each altering the color of what lies beneath. The question is not which shade arrives. It is which mixture - and whether anyone is holding the brush.
On the Corruption of the Public Mind
What if AI destroys the shared reality that democracy requires?
How AI-generated content threatens the epistemic foundations of democratic governance.
On the Aristocracy of the Algorithm
What if AI creates a permanent cognitive caste system?
The risk that AI concentrates cognitive advantage among those who already hold power.
On the Democratization of Intelligence and Its Discontents
What if AI's greatest gift is also its deepest trap?
The paradox of universal access to intelligence and the hidden costs of cognitive abundance.
On the Folly of Universal Optimization
What if every company acting rationally destroys the economy?
How individually rational AI adoption creates collectively catastrophic economic outcomes.
On the Hollowing of the Human
What if we win every battle and lose what made the war worth fighting?
The existential risk of outsourcing human cognition, creativity, and struggle to machines.
On the Sovereignty of Nations in the Age of Machines
What if AI dissolves the nation-state from above, below, and within?
How AI challenges national sovereignty through corporate power, transnational systems, and internal disruption.
On the True Wealth of the Nation
What if the economy was never about labor in the first place?
A reexamination of national wealth in an age when human labor may no longer be the foundation of economic value.