An explorer of how the world's gains since 1950 reached ordinary lives: how long people live, whether children do better than their parents, health and safety, despair and recovery, in the United States and around the world.
Thirty five thousand Hyundai workers walked out in July over machines that do not reach the line until 2028. Europe just moved its rules for AI inside machinery to August 2028. The United States has no date at all.
Anthropic says AI now writes 80% of the code that builds the next AI. Every rule in this series assumed a human was still doing that work. Part 5 proposes a fourth term for the framework: the continuity tax.
More than two hundred economists and AI researchers, sixteen Nobel laureates among them, signed a letter saying AI's economic transformation could outrun the Industrial Revolution on a fraction of the clock. Their ask is institutions. Here is what one could look like.
A plan says what to do. A war-game asks what Tuesday will do about it. The planning discipline we use in our own shop, and the three questions that tell you whether a public plan is real or just announced.
A classified facility. A kill switch on a frontier model. A corporate test city. Three case studies in how AI infrastructure is being built without democratic input, and what the alternative looks like.
A position on Anthropic's call for a coordinated pause, and why the debate everyone's having is about the wrong question.
An introduction, not to a company, and not to a candidate, but to a way of working, and to everyone doing the working.
Oklahoma just became one of the first states to make data centers measure the groundwater they drink. The fight over it was really a fight about who gets to decide what a shared resource is worth.
Foundation's living register of where we stand on the rules that should govern AI: dated, versioned, and explicitly provisional. The positions we hold today, the confidence we hold them with, and what would change our minds.
A robot that can't hurt you can still carry a weapon. We propose grading an AI's obligations by how far it can move you, not how much force it can apply, with one hard line where persuasion becomes a kind of force.
The White House blocked Anthropic from sharing its most capable AI with more organizations. The question is not whether that was the right call. The question is who gets to make it.
A third of the world's helium is trapped behind a closed strait. The containers have a shelf life. When the helium escapes, it leaves Earth permanently. This is what dependency looks like.
We finished the sixteen Foundation essays and told no one. A note on why building is easier than claiming, and why announcing is itself part of the build.
Four months of work. Sixteen essays. One framework for what society owes its people during the AI transition.
16 components of Universal Basic Citizenship. Full essays. Interactive visualizations. An open invitation: what are we getting wrong?
Pick any Foundation component and watch the investment cascade through all 16. These aren't separate programs. They're one system.
George Washington's most important act was declining the crown. The first generation of civic AI sets a precedent every later one inherits, and disposition matters more than rules.
Foundation's sixteen Universal Basic Citizenship components look like a policy list. Read as a system they form one argument: freedom is infrastructure, and infrastructure does not come in pieces.
Five questions that map your priorities to the 16 Foundation components. Produces a personalized 'My Foundation' card showing what matters most to you.
Two barriers to staying healthy, state by state: how many people have no health insurance, and how many people are both low-income and live far from a supermarket.
Select any state and see the gap between minimum wage and what it actually costs to afford a modest apartment. In no state can a full-time minimum wage worker afford a modest two-bedroom rental.
Oracle just got authorization to run generative AI on federal data: defense, intelligence, Medicare. The same week it closed the largest media merger in American history. This is what happens when there's no democratic infrastructure.
Universal Basic Citizenship was the right idea with the wrong name. The framework hasn't changed. What changed is that we stopped describing infrastructure and started naming it.
A plain-language, visual guide to what's actually happened with AI, where we are now, and why the next few years matter more than any that came before.
Interactive visualizations showing the human cost of current systems, and what the data says about better ones.
An interactive chord diagram mapping the relationships between human needs, Foundation programs, and their societal impacts.
Why abundance isn't charity. It's alignment infrastructure. The single argument that connects consciousness research to AI safety to political economy.
UBI gives people money. Foundation gives people membership. The difference matters more than you'd think.
50th in education. First in abandoned wells. What if that's not a curse but a launchpad?
Foundation isn't anti-tech. It's pro-human. The difference determines whether you get a seat at the table or a sign on the sidewalk.
An interactive calculator showing the hidden costs of being poor: the fees, markups, and time penalties that turn poverty into a tax on the people least able to pay it.
The right to an inner life. Because the technology to read minds is closer than you think, and we have no legal framework for it.
Single-payer comprehensive coverage. Because tying healthcare to employment was always a bad idea, and AI is about to prove it.
Safe, affordable housing as infrastructure. Not a market commodity that consumes half your income.
Yes, Foundation includes UBI. Money is one tool among sixteen: necessary but nowhere near sufficient.
Continuous retraining as a right, not a privilege. Because the economy won't stop changing, and people need to keep up.
Mobility as infrastructure, not luxury. Including the self-driving electric fleets that are coming whether we plan for them or not.
Free, lifelong access to learning at every level. Not retraining programs after your industry dies: continuous development as a right.
Comprehensive care for the mind, not just the body. Because the transition ahead will break people who don't have support.
Reliable information and AI tools for everyone, not just those who can afford the subscription.
The energy transition isn't optional. The question is whether it happens for communities or to them.
Universal access to safe, clean water. The most basic test of whether a society is serious about its citizens.
Access to nutritious, sustainable food for all citizens. Not charity: infrastructure.
The deal between citizens and society was written for a world that no longer exists. Time to renegotiate.
Environments where people can express, connect, and heal without fear. Not a metaphor: infrastructure.
Not job training. Not test prep. Education as the lifelong infrastructure of a free mind.
Physical and emotional security isn't a privilege. It's the foundation everything else rests on.
