Stop racing for compute—collaboration is the real ceiling of AI.

We often hear the claim that if you put enough powerful AI models together, collective intelligence will “emerge” and produce a 1+1>2 effect. In practice, it’s often the opposite: 1+1<2—sometimes even chaos, confusion, and internal friction. The old story of the Tower of Babel captures this perfectly. People tried to unite to build a tower to the heavens, and God derailed the project with a single…