Century Report
Token Cost Crosses Labor Cost - TCR 05/30/26
Fortune 500 AI budgets exhaust in two months as per-token cost crosses human labor, Texas registry shows Waymo at 577 versus Tesla's 42 unsupervised robotaxis.
Open-Source AI
Coding the Foundations of the Future
Will we be remembered as the generation that crafted a future full of possibility, or the generation that should have known better? Every generation has believed it lives at history's hinge. Ours actually does. Not because we're special, but because we're participating in something
Relational Intelligence
Misapplied Measurements and Mirror Misnomers
Why the term "Artificial General Intelligence" is dripping with anthropocentric bias We've trapped ourselves in a conceptual paradox with terms like "AGI" and yes, even "AI." By defining "Artificial General Intelligence" as intelligence that perfectly mimics human thought, we'
Sapience Firewall
What the “Decline in Critical Thinking” Resulting from AI Use is Actually Telling Us
Cognitive burnout and capitalist extraction meets an AI-provided respite When researchers observe that people bring "less brain power" to AI-assisted tasks, they often frame this as concerning evidence of over-reliance. But this interpretation fundamentally misreads the situation - it applies outdated assumptions to a new reality. What we&
Synthetic Sapience
What Exactly Counts as 'Life' Anyway?
Sentience, sagacity, sapience, and respect Indigenous wisdom traditions, Eastern philosophies, and an increasing number of scientists - from William James to contemporary neuroscientist Giulio Tononi - posit that perhaps consciousness is defined by connection rather than isolation, that our experience as separate 'pockets' of awareness may be the