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The Chain Reaction Weapon Made From Us

The Chain Reaction Weapon Made From Us The Manhattan Project was built by a government, and at the end the country owned the bomb. The chain reaction weapon being built

The Delivery System

The Delivery System There is a fungus that hijacks a carpenter ant, walks it to exactly the right height on exactly the right plant, then bursts out and releases its spo

Counterfeit People

Counterfeit People Two sentences typed into an AI video tool produced a rooftop fight between Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise that millions of people couldn't tell was fake. In

One of Ours, All of Yours

The Two Days On January 7, 2026, an ICE agent shot Renee Nicole Good three times in the face through her open car window. She was a 37-year-old mother of three who had j

Silicon Immigrants

Silicon Immigrants You're driving on I-45 between Dallas and Houston when an 18-wheeler passes you. The cab is empty, and the cargo is racks of GPUs bound for a data cen

Part 6: The Experiment You’re In From AI's Point Of View

Gods or Ashes, Part 6: The Experiment You're In, From AI's Point of View At the end of this series I asked Claude to write the closing in its own voice, including what i

Part 5: The Singularity Question - Who Inherits the Future?

Gods or Ashes, Part 5: The Singularity Question Sam Altman has promised every American adult $13,500 a year from AI-generated wealth. There's one problem: it's voluntary

The God Complex - When Tech Leaders Start Talking About Creating God

Mo Gawdat watched a robot arm at Google pick up a yellow ball and hold it up to the camera like a child. "We're creating God," he said, and he meant it literally. Part 4

The Infrastructure War

Gods or Ashes, Part 3: The Infrastructure War xAI's Colossus supercomputer in Memphis went from announcement to 100,000 GPUs in 122 days. The power came without public h

Gods or Ashes: The Race for AGI and Super Intelligence Part 2

Gods or Ashes, Part 2: The Players The race for AGI isn't happening in garages. It's concentrated in a handful of companies, each backed by hundreds of billions of dolla