Short Essays

Each short essay makes one argument about the AI transformation in about ten minutes of reading. No footnotes, no sources. For the evidence, counterarguments, and branching futures, read the full essay linked at the bottom of each piece.

I

On the End of Work as We Know It

What happens when AI breaks the link between production and prosperity

II

On the Economics of Truth

What happens when the collective capacity to agree on reality collapses at the same time we need it most

III

On the Automation of Power

What happens when AI makes the decisions and democracy ratifies them

IV

On the Hollowing of the Human

What happens when AI replaces the struggle through which human capacities develop

V

On the Inheritance We Choose

What happens when a society must reinvent how it passes on what it knows

VI

On the Choices That Remain

What it would take to govern a technology that moves faster than the institutions meant to constrain it