Critical Thinking in the Age of AI

No Amount of Ambition Will Save You From a Collapsing Institution

A reading and annotation of my essay on Substack here: https://shaeomonijo.substack.com/p/no-amount-of-ambition-will-save-you Pls excuse my voice; there's a cold coming

AI Has Intelligence. It Doesn't Have Intellect.

This is an audio reading and annotation of my essay on Substack, which you can find here: https://shaeomonijo.substack.com/p/ai-has-intelligence-it-doesnt-have Follow me

Are You Actually Behind, or Just Held to a Higher Standard?

Sharing my writing process and reading my personal essay which you can read here: https://shaeomonijo.substack.com/p/are-you-actually-behind-or-just-held This is the maj

Philosophers are more employable than CS majors right now.

Philosophy majors now have lower unemployment than computer science majors. Why? Because AI labs need critical thinkers to build ethical frameworks and prevent catastroph

Who Pays When AI Takes the Jobs? The Token Tax, Explained

Three-quarters of all U.S. federal tax revenue comes from labor. So what happens when AI starts replacing the workers that revenue depends on? In this episode, Shae break

Before You Use Local AI, You Need to Know This

Hey folks, you asked for Part 2, and here it is. This episode is the context that makes the local AI discussion actually make sense: what the open-source AI ecosystem is,

Notion vs. Obsidian: Which One Actually Supports Deep Thinking?

WELCOME TO MY STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS! Sorry for the singing, but the substance is there 🥹 Most people treat Notion versus Obsidian as a choice you have to make once. It

The Ant Company: Why Small and Focused Beats Scale Right Now

The traditional full-time job is not disappearing overnight, but the conditions that made it stable are changing faster than most people realize. In this episode, I break

How to Use AI Without Using Data Centers: A Beginner's Guide to Local and Offline AI

There's an entire ecosystem of AI tools, many of them free, open-source, and running entirely on your own device, that most people have never heard of. This episode break

Uncovering the Plan to Keep You in the Dark About AI | IASEAI Day 2 Recap

There's a concept that reframes everything you thought you knew about AI transparency and it came from one of the most powerful talks on AI I've ever witnessed in person.

AI Safety Is Failing. Yoshua Bengio & Experts Explain Why | IASEAI 2026 Day 1 Recap

What is actually happening at the frontier of AI safety research? I attended Day One of IASEAI 2026, the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI, in Paris, and

Something Bigger Than AI is Happening. You've Been Warned.

I just published this essay and I wanted to publish the audio version so it can reach as many people as possible. Read + Share this essay, please: https://open.substack

The Real Crisis Isn’t AI, It’s Us

We blame students for using ChatGPT to write essays. We shame people for turning to AI companions. We criticize workers for automating emails. But what if the real proble

Who Controls AI? Mark Carney, Davos, and the Case for AI Sovereignty

In this episode, I unpack Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos and explore what they reveal about AI sovereignty, decentrali

AI Agents Created Their Own Religion (Moltbook, OpenClaw, Clawdbot)

AI agents just created their own religion. On a social network called Moltbook, autonomous AI powered by OpenClaw spontaneously formed "Crustafarianism" complete with scr

How to Get Disgustingly Educated in Anything This Year

How does a historian learn AI research well enough to contribute meaningfully to policy conversations? In this episode, I share the six-step self-education framework I us

The History of AI Explained: 75 Years of Trying to Build Thinking Machines

Everyone acts like AI just appeared overnight with ChatGPT. But we've been building toward this moment for 75 years and every generation has completely redefined what "ar

How AI Is Quietly Destroying Democracy (New Research)

In this episode, I break down Woodrow Hartzog and Jessica Silbey's paper "How AI Destroys Institutions" and explain why anyone who cares about knowledge, power, and cultu

The Appearance of Intelligence: Why It Doesn't Matter If AI Is Truly Conscious

ChatGPT coughed during a study session and it broke a student's brain. For a split second, their mind processed: "Wait, is it sick?" This seemingly small moment reveals w

Why Does Work Feel Pointless? The Real Future of Work Crisis

Even before AI entered the picture, we'd already lost the plot on work. This episode uses a viral Substack article about "the death of the corporate job" as a launching p