Section
What Is at Stake?
Who benefits, who remains accountable, and whether AI enlarges or diminishes human agency
Inside What Is at Stake?
Explore the work
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Narrative
The Ideas That Decide the Future
The choices made now will shape civilization for the next century. Technology alone will not determine the outcome. Ideas, incentives, and institutions will. Technology can either…
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Civilizational Blindspot Civilizational Stakes
We are about to automate our ideas at civilizational scale. Before we do so, we must understand the limits of what is possible—and what cannot be safely automated no matter how int…
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Shared Blindspot
They shape how we price risk, allocate capital, test medicines, design policy, organize markets, and increasingly, build artificial intelligence. They all share a fundamental blind…
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Scaling Bad Ideas 2
If the foundations are wrong, AI scales the mistake to systemic proportions. In markets, that can mean crashes. In economies, that can mean depressions. In supply chains, cascading…
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Scaling Bad Ideas
Until now, the cost of bad ideas was limited. A bad model produced a bad forecast. A bad theory produced a bad policy. A bad assumption produced a failed strategy. Now we are putti…