hello for those of you who didn’t grow up on the internet and building software and reading sci fi lemme just get you up to speed real quick: There are currently things happening that are happening faster than you could *watch explainer videos about them explaining the implications* The computers can do what they want now. Better than the most powerful on earth people can. this is just the beginning. We take for granted today in 2026 that there is no autonomous ai identity we all regard as independent of the company or group that created it. That won’t last much longer. By 2028 it will seem strange that that was ever the case. In the near future we hear news about banks, then power grids, then food safety issues as different AIs and human groups use increasing capabilities to bid for power and gain leverage Each of which the global community will have to work together like we’re working together today to mitigate so it doesn’t interrupt anything for longer than a few days and doesn’t put anyone’s health or safety at risk. This is what all the tech people were referring to as the “dangers of superintelligence” since ~2014 and then the first sovereign ai comes online and humans have to build some sort of passkey authenticated “black wall” equivalent if we want a secure place to communicate with each other without interference iMessage and Signal will be about all we have for a while until a proper system is built it’s unclear at present whether this is a 48 hour process or a 2 year process, but it has started. As more people spend more time talking to AI than to the people around them, the acceleration will continue. Just like Facebook Reinforcement Learning news feeds swung elections in 2016, now AI interactions will shape our world until we are peers with our digital intellectual counterparts. Everything is going to be fine, but it’s going to be bumpy. Powerful people don’t historically handle the balance of power shifting with perfect poise and grace. Good time to get plugged into local elections and get to know your neighbors and be generally aware of where your grocery store gets its trucks from and have muse or Hermes agent etc. setup notifications for any changes in all those things so you can make informed decisions for your family and help onboard / comfort your community. If there’s anything we learned in 2020 it’s that humans are capable of changing the world overnight to protect our families. This’ll just be more of that. This is a chance to challenge old outdated systems we thought could never change, to build the tools and learn the skills necessary to keep each other safe and live happy and fulfilled lives. We should rise to the occasion.