When Intelligence Turns Against Oxygen: Why AI Governance Is Humanity’s Last Firewall You are 17 breaths away from unconsciousness. 3 minutes from brain damage. 10 minutes from death. This is your relationship with oxygen. An AGI knows this. An AGI knows that 50-80% of that oxygen comes from invisible ocean microbes. An AGI knows exactly how to break that system.…
There’s a special kind of irony in watching the world’s most powerful AI company, funded by billionaires, hyped as humanity’s savior, and guarded by “alignment researchers,” finally achieve its long-awaited breakthrough: A chatbot that flirts back. Yes, after raising tens of billions of dollars to “benefit all of humanity,” OpenAI seems to have decided that the most urgent human need…
The Case Against OpenAI OpenAI said its mission was to ensure AGI “benefits all of humanity.” In practice, the record shows repeated moves that concentrated power, weakened internal safety guardrails, harvested other people’s work without clear consent at scale, relied on exploitative labor practices that caused psychological trauma to vulnerable workers, and muzzled (then partially unmuzzled) insiders who tried to…
What we’re calling the “AI revolution” looks less like a renaissance and more like a global costume party where everyone’s pretending to be a genius in the AI economy. Scroll through LinkedIn, and you’ll see it a thousand adults posting robot art, synthetic videos, and ChatGPT monologues, each convinced they’ve “built the future.” But under the fluorescent glow of their…