resilience
Building on Quicksand
The accelerating deployment of AI reveals three critical challenges: our infrastructure is inadequate, monopolization threatens resilience, and we're eliminating entry-level career pathways. But the same maintenance backlogs that companies defer also represent an overlooked opportunity—if we choose to use AI to address them rather than eliminate the workers who would learn from them.
Choosing Resilience Over Concentration
The path we're on leads toward a few dominant AI systems, controlled by a handful of corporations, through which all economic activity must flow. Digital feudalism where the appearance of choice masks monopoly control. It's not impossible. It's not even improbable. It's the direction current incentives point toward—the logical endpoint of a venture capital system explicitly designed to create winner-take-all monopolies.