Navigating the Age of AI Casualties
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Every loan is a claim on a predictable future. If AI makes that future less predictable, the question isn't whether losses occur, but who ultimately absorbs them.
We price everything in money, yet rarely ask what gives money its price. AI may force us to confront that question sooner than we think.
The wealth we trust is built on assumptions of stability. As AI reshapes the institutions, markets, and social contracts that underpin modern economies, those assumptions may no longer hold.
Tech leaders say AI will create a brighter future. But how much should you trust the people who stand to gain the most if you're wrong?
A $42 billion proposal could reshape how AI wealth reaches the public. The bigger issue is who gets to write the rules.
Companies are blaming AI for a surge in layoffs, but the technology often isn't replacing workers—so what's really driving the cuts, and why does it matter?
The promise—and pitfalls—of asking AI companies to support displaced workers.
The US government ordered Anthropic to switch off its two most powerfulAI models overnight. This is actually a story about a chair — the empty one where you should be sitting.
After all the diagnosis, the honest question is: what do you actually do? Not a checklist, but a posture — for living inside a process that moves faster than anyone can respond to.
As AI erodes income and food technology disrupts animal agriculture, what kind of food production is most resilient?
