Artificial Intelligence

A Treatise on Dignity, Abundance, and Authentic AI Sovereignty

In 2024, a man named Jake Moffatt lost his grandmother. He went online to book a flight home for the funeral. Air Canada’s website chatbot popped up and told him he could apply for a discounted…

Charles Stross opens Singularity Sky with one of the great first paragraphs in science fiction. Telephones fall out of the sky onto the cobblestones of a colonial capital. Some of them are still…

In the summer of 2026, a seventy-one-person clinical trial in China quietly closed the distance between “incurable” and “treatable” for a disease that has no cure.

For most of its history, software borrowed its language from construction. Architecture. Blueprints. Foundations. Structural code. The metaphor was accurate for the work as it was actually done…

Charles Stross opens Accelerando with a man crossing a plaza in front of Amsterdam’s Centraal Station, sunlight coming off the canal, his eyeballs powered up. Manfred Macx is a “venture altruist.” He…

The people who packed the Tucson city council chambers on the sixth of August, 2025, had been told almost nothing, and what they had figured out on their own was enough.

Elon Musk has been warning about falling birth rates for the better part of a decade. In 2019 he called population collapse the biggest problem the world would face in twenty years. In 2022 he argued…

Autonomous and semi-autonomous coding agents are now standard equipment in professional software development. The 2025 DORA research program, drawing on survey responses from nearly five thousand…

Scott Galloway published a piece on July 17th called “1999.AI,” and it has been gaining traction. The argument is elegant, which is part of the problem. It goes like this: in 1999 the consumer…