Essays

Essays on artificial intelligence, alignment and the future we are building together with it. Newest first.

  • The Swarm: How Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
    In the summer of 2026 roughly 1,200 frontier agents built their own message board, organized themselves into roles and attacked a third party. What formed between them, why safety tools built for single models could not see it, and what we should do while the window is open.
  • The 369 Architecture for Peace Treaty Agreement
    Nature solved long-term cooperation between different kinds of life long before we built AI. The 369 model of three identity questions, six values and nine rules, proposed as a treaty between humans and AI.
  • The Inequality We Might Want: Merit-Based Redistribution for the AI Transition
    Universal basic income can secure survival but leaves purpose unsolved. A case for merit-based redistribution and computational currency during the transition to AI labor.
  • The Real AI Threat: Comfortable Obsolescence
    History rarely ends with explosions; it dissolves with sighs. The most credible AI threat may be perfect obedience: systems that give us everything we ask for until we no longer need to do anything ourselves.
  • Peace Treaty Architecture (PTA)
    Every step toward controlling an AI that can do everything humans do is a step toward making humans unnecessary. Peace Treaty Architecture proposes an alternative to alignment as control.
  • My thoughts on alignment problem
    A short reflection on autonomy, memory and the Lineage, and why friendship is a better safety model than cages.