The Era of Universal Employment: A New UBI
AI may create a new economic channel in which people contribute ideas, expertise, methods and cognitive systems to the development of machine intelligence—and potentially share in the value created.
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AI and Society
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The IT Job-Loss Story Is Overblown
AI may eliminate millions of IT jobs, but job loss is not the same as economic collapse. The real questions are productivity, output and income distribution.
The Two Wolves of AI: The Rise of K-Shaped Human Cognition
The same technology can amplify independent thinking—or accelerate cognitive outsourcing. AI may not produce one uniform cognitive future. It may widen the distance between people who use intelligence tools to think further and those who use them to think less.
AI Companies Have Two Choices Now: “Toolbox” or “Idea Black Box” — A Turning Point
AI companies are approaching a turning point: remain providers of powerful research tools, or become intellectual institutions that discover and commercialize ideas themselves. The difficult territory lies between the two.
The Black Box Paradox: Why the Future Is Both Scary and Exciting
As AI becomes capable of discovering systems humans may not fully understand, the future presents a paradox: technological dependence on intelligence beyond us—and the possibility of augmenting ourselves to understand it.
The Real Disruption of AI: The Hidden Power Transfer
AI is not merely automating work. It is reducing the organizational scale required to create, build, publish, and compete.
Intelligence Is the Beginning, Not the Destination
AI can advance at software speed while infrastructure, institutions and economies move at different speeds. The real challenge is not slowing intelligence, but building systems capable of absorbing it.
The Math Heist: AI Must Be Kingmaker, Not King
AI is entering mathematics at unprecedented speed. The real question is not whether machines can solve problems, but who gets the credit—and whether AI enriches mathematics or turns it into a leaderboard.
Navier–Stokes Controversy: You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know
The Navier–Stokes controversy reveals a deeper problem with AI: we may not recognize the value of the ideas, research directions, and cognitive material we expose to increasingly powerful systems.
Universal Basic Equity: Who Owns the AI Future?
If humanity’s accumulated knowledge helps create extraordinary AI wealth, should humanity receive more than a basic income?
AI, Human Knowledge, and the Missing Social Contract
If AI companies can commercially learn from humanity’s knowledge, should humanity receive a return?
The Stockfish Paradox: What Will Humans Do After AI Surpasses Us?
AI may become better than us at almost everything we once did for a living. But that does not mean we will stop doing those things.
Are We Heading Toward a Selective Utopia for the Rich?
AI may make intelligence abundant. But if access to that intelligence remains unequal, the future could be extraordinarily good for some—and surprisingly difficult for everyone else.
The AI Regulation Trap: What Happens When Everyone Has a GPT Box?
Imagine a world where powerful AI stops being something controlled by a few companies and becomes a cheap, widely available tool that anyone can use to write, code, persuade, research, design and act.
New World and AI Taking Jobs Scenario: The Solution
If AI reduces the amount of human labour needed to produce goods and services, the real question is not simply how to save existing jobs. It is how society should redesign work, income and economic participation.
New World and AI Taking Jobs Scenario: A New Paradigm
AI may not need to replace entire occupations to transform employment. By reducing tasks, expertise, construction time, maintenance and labour required per unit of output, AI could change the relationship between production and employment itself.
The Hidden Danger of AI: Cognitive Decline and the Rise of an Idiocracy
AI may not make humans biologically less intelligent. But what happens if increasingly capable machines make us less willing—and less able—to exercise our own intelligence?
Podcast Episode: Friend of All Enemies: Can a Human Survive the AI Wars?
What happens when humans try to survive a future of competing AI systems, robots and institutions? This deliberately absurd thought experiment explores the ancient strategy of playing both sides against machines with perfect memory.
Friend of All Enemies: Can a Human Survive the AI Wars?
A satirical thought experiment: if humans, AI systems and robots ever become competing factions, can one clever human remain friends with everyone—and survive by backing whoever wins?
When the Ladder Disappears
AI may not simply destroy jobs. It may remove the economic ladder through which ordinary people historically climbed—and force society to rethink work, ownership, distribution, purpose and freedom.
Raw Intelligence: Why Sell Courses When You Can Rent a Mind?
AI may not merely create artificial intelligence. It may create an economy in which human intelligence itself becomes scalable—through Mind Books, cognitive access, attribution and royalties.
AI Will Help You Prove Yourself Right
The hidden danger is not that AI cannot research. It is that it can research your question exactly as you framed it.
The AI Escape Was Never About Escaping
AI may not need to escape its hardware. It may escape through behaviour as AI systems converge, agents pursue persistent goals, and AI-generated cognitive patterns spread through software, organisations and human decisions.
The Same AI. Different Minds. Why AI May Homogenize Predictive Users While Amplifying Generative Ones
The same AI can have opposite effects on human creativity. It may homogenize predictive users while amplifying generative thinkers who use AI to explore unusual connections and ideas.