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
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