Genie, oracle, rogue, god or just software: where AI could end up
Nick Bostrom named the genie and the oracle back in 2014, and then argued they're far closer to each other than they sound.
Musings
The long reads. Each one takes a big question about AI and follows it all the way through.
Quality or quantity: what kind of smarter is AI becoming?
A cartoon Elon Musk shared puts AI on one line from ant to Einstein, and that line hides two very different ways to get smarter.
Humanity's place in an AI-controlled world
If a machine civilization ever spreads through the galaxy, the most valuable thing it owns might be the planet it started on.
Eleven problems that would change everything, and the one that could crack the rest
Fusion, gene editing, cancer, warp drives and seven more, ordered by how close they really are, with what each would change and what's in the way.
We priced a home LLM rig against a $20 subscription. It breaks even in 23 years.
Every number below is from the labs' own pricing pages and docs, checked on September 5, 2026.
Shorter pieces are in Guides.