Monoculture

When everyone trusts the same model, everyone is blindsided at once.

Shared assumptions turn scattered errors into one system-wide failure — and no instrument warns you, because every instrument shares the blind spot. Sponte studies where these tools hold, and where they quietly load the whole system onto a single point of failure.

We have already seen what happens when powerful institutions mistake models for reality: flawed assumptions about risk helped turn 2008 into a global financial crisis. AI now risks taking the same fundamental error—confusing what can be modeled with what can actually be known—and embedding it not just in financial markets, but across the economy and society. If we get that wrong, AI could undermine the very markets, freedom, and decentralized decision-making that made modern prosperity possible. We exist to catch that mistake before it becomes infrastructure.