AI Aug 2025: Apocalypse deferred - but Letta/Void is still going to surprise

If there are humans left in 50 years all of the chaos of this moment may be reduced to a single bullet point about the rise of ai. It's not something I write about a lot though, the topic is well covered. My only prediction has been that if we did get AGI AND we still had a democracy then our political system would be socialist . For better or worse - oh, hell, it's very much for the better - the…