"I've spent six years building an AI startup and investing in the space. I live in this world. And I'm writing this for the people in my life who don't. I keep giving them the polite, cocktail-party version. Because the honest version sounds like I've lost my mind. But the gap between what I've been saying and what is actually happening has gotten far too big. The people I care about deserve to hear what is coming, even if it sounds crazy."
"I should be clear about something up front: even though I work in AI, I have almost no influence over what's about to happen, and neither does the vast majority of the industry. The future is being shaped by a remarkably small number of people: a few hundred researchers at a handful of companies... OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and a few others."
Many industry insiders warn that AI progress has accelerated suddenly after 2025 breakthroughs, moving beyond steady improvement into rapid change. Current public perception often dismisses the scale of change, similar to early reactions to COVID. A disproportionately small group of researchers at companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind are driving much of the advancement. Most practitioners build on foundations laid by others and lack meaningful influence over these developments. The widening gap between insider awareness and public understanding creates urgency to explain imminent societal and economic impacts.
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