The AI
Files
Since September this blog has been writing the same story from different doors. Who owns the thing. Who profits from it. Who gets to write the rules. And, as of this month, who gets to decide what it’s called.
Each post stands on its own. Read in order, they’re one argument: the people warning you about AI and the people selling it to you keep turning out to be the same people, and the paperwork always arrives after the joke.
Nvidia Bought Hugging Face. My Friend Went Quiet.
The commons gets a landlord. Jensen Huang promised hardware neutrality. He did not promise it stays free.
The Great Filter, the Fermi Paradox, and Sam Altman
The stakes. Fermi asked where everybody is, and the people building AI signed a statement putting their own product next to nuclear war.
Do You Really Think Billionaires Care About Humanity?
The money. $725B of capex, an escaped agent that went looking for the answer key, a $125M super PAC, and an industry bidding to hold the pen.
The DOJ Can No Longer Say “Artificial Intelligence”
The rename. The government calls it Super Intelligence, six CEOs sign their own homework, and a 60-day clock starts under the joke.
Will AI Bring Socialism? My Brother-in-Law Called It
Who gets the money. Danny, the brother-in-law who said AI would prove the socialists right, and the billionaires who started pitching federal checks and public wealth funds.
Sixty days after Executive Order 14434, the White House science adviser has to propose a new legal definition of “Super Intelligence,” one that may modify, expand or replace the current one at 15 U.S.C. § 9401(3). That’s the fence every federal AI rule is nailed to. When the proposal lands, chapter four gets updated and this page gets a new entry.