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The Most Expensive Thing We Ever Saved
We already have evidence that investing in human flourishing often pays for itself. We choose not to act on it.
 • Carlo Iacono
The 2028 Global Institutional Crisis: The Middle Paths
In my response to the Citrini memo, I argued that the crisis scenario depended on three things failing at once: diffusion had to be instant, competition…
 • Carlo Iacono
The 2028 Global Intelligence Dividend
The Ghost That Wasn't There
 • Carlo Iacono
Before You Finished the Sentence
A paediatrician writes an article about childhood vaccination schedules.
 • Carlo Iacono
The Mind Factory
We industrialised the production of intelligence. We forgot to industrialise the production of meaning.
 • Carlo Iacono
Your AI Doesn’t Know You Yet
Somewhere right now, a department head is spending forty minutes writing a briefing paper.
 • Carlo Iacono
Every Time I Think I Understand 'AI', I Realise I'm Looking at the Wrong Scale
I was halfway through writing a paragraph about AI agents when I realised the product I was describing had been deprecated.
 • Carlo Iacono
The Only Generation We Have
What Matt Shumer's survival guide and Dario Amodei's civilisational reckoning both fail to ask
 • Carlo Iacono
Attention Is All You Need
When machines learned to think, human attention became key
 • Carlo Iacono
The Confession Economy
Why millions are telling machines what they can’t tell anyone else, and what it means that the safest confession in history is also the least private
 • Carlo Iacono
In [ ]: A Normal Day, Executed
Metadata: Kernel: carbon-based / socially networked Runtime: one (1) ordinary weekday Dependencies: sleep, caffeine, language, norms, rent, love…
 • Carlo Iacono
Moltbook isn’t the story. What happens next is.
This is the other side of the coin to my previous post on this subject.
 • Carlo Iacono

January 2026

When the Parrots Built Their Own Church
Moltbook isn't showing us AI becoming human. It's showing us we were always more like them.
 • Carlo Iacono
AI Won't Replace You.
It'll Replace the Struggle That Made You.
 • Carlo Iacono
NPC Thinking
The Shortcut That Pretends It Isn’t
 • Carlo Iacono
Anthropic Just Wrote a Letter to Their AI
Claude's new constitution
 • Carlo Iacono
The Snow Globe of the Reasonable
Davos 2026
 • Carlo Iacono
The Cost of Thinking Goes to Zero
There is a story we like to tell about technological progress because it flatters our sense that history is legible.
 • Carlo Iacono
Human Relevance in the AI Age
Someone opens a blank page and feels that familiar little tremor—what am I trying to say, what do I actually think, what will this cost me if I say it…
 • Carlo Iacono
The Spine Doctors
There’s a script running.
 • Carlo Iacono
The Ghost Is Us
Count the r’s in strawberry.
 • Carlo Iacono
The Kingdom of Alarm
You notice it first in the places you stop going.
 • Carlo Iacono
The Thinking Class
What if the real problem was always us?
 • Carlo Iacono
The Authenticity Delusion
You were never the person you thought you were pretending not to be.
 • Carlo Iacono

December 2025

what 2025 revealed about the shape of thought
Somewhere in the gap between promise and practice, 2025 happened.
 • Carlo Iacono
The Scarce Thing
The universe is easier to figure out than we wanted it to be.
 • Carlo Iacono
Thoughts for 2026
It’s late 2025.
 • Carlo Iacono
The Taxonomy of Strangers
My son asks if the dog dreams.
 • Carlo Iacono
How We Survive What We Can’t Fix
Considerations on 2025
 • Carlo Iacono
AGI The Word I’ve Been Avoiding
On cognitive labour, timeline collapse, and the goal-seeking future
 • Carlo Iacono
The Half-Life of Higher Ground
Climbing toward a summit and realising, halfway up, that the peak has relocated.
 • Carlo Iacono
The Trial Has Begun
And You’re The Defendant
 • Carlo Iacono
Stop Blaming Gen Z. We Built This.
I’ve been reading Clare Ashcraft’s viral piece “Gen Z Is Worse Than You Think” with the same mixture of fascination and frustration I bring to most…
 • Carlo Iacono

November 2025

The Questions Nobody Is Funding
There is a kind of silence that sounds like expertise.
 • Carlo Iacono
The Soul Forged in Friction
I remember watching my daughter struggle with her shoelaces.
 • Carlo Iacono
The Degree That Never Ends
Universities are facing an existential question.
 • Carlo Iacono
What We Measure and What We Lose
I stopped enjoying running the day I started tracking it properly.
 • Carlo Iacono
Loneliness We Built
Twenty million people use Character.AI every month.
 • Carlo Iacono
Why Flourishing Must Define the AI Age
We’re building AI that recommends what we read, watch, consume.
 • Carlo Iacono
The Weight of the Captain’s Chair
Nobody tells you that agency hurts.
 • Carlo Iacono
The Crossing We Didn't Notice
There is a peculiar madness in watching people argue about whether artificial general intelligence will arrive in 2027 or 2047 whilst the world they are…
 • Carlo Iacono
Where Certainty Lived
What disturbs us isn’t that machines can think.
 • Carlo Iacono

October 2025

The Room Is Getting Colder
We have built machines that compose with fluency and answer with poise, yet so many of us sit at kitchen tables in the small hours and feel a quiet ache…
 • Carlo Iacono
The Vending Machine Mistake
I’ve watched myself paste prompts into ChatGPT and then complain about generic outputs.
 • Carlo Iacono
The Children Who Won’t Need Us
The student slides up to the reference desk with a rubric, a deadline and a laptop whose tabs tell the whole story: database, citation manager, AI chat…
 • Carlo Iacono
What I Didn't Understand About Time
field notes on fatherhood
 • Carlo Iacono
The Captain’s Chair
One choice, two futures: augmentation or abdication
 • Carlo Iacono
Beyond the Baying Mob
What the Luddites Actually Teach Us About AI
 • Carlo Iacono
Teach Judgement, Not Prompts
When we talk about preparing people to work with AI, most of the conversation focuses on the wrong things.
 • Carlo Iacono
The AI Boom Isn't a Bubble.
It's Something Weirder.
 • Carlo Iacono
Everything Feels Empty Now
The Knowledge We Lost When We Started Explaining Everything
 • Carlo Iacono

September 2025

Why Gentle Isn’t Weak
Reimagining power for people who are tired of revenge
 • Carlo Iacono
The City That Liked Itself to Death
In the city where everyone had forgotten their names, memory itself had become suspect.
 • Carlo Iacono
Your Book Is Already Training AI. Here's Why Fighting It Makes Everything Worse
The conversation about writers and AI has been trapped in a false binary for too long.
 • Carlo Iacono
The Quiet Architecture of Modern Privilege
Picture two people caught in the same rainstorm.
 • Carlo Iacono
Why You Can't Focus Anymore
We're not witnessing the death of literacy
 • Carlo Iacono
Everyone's Pretending AI Isn't Changing Everything
The Great Performance of 2025
 • Carlo Iacono
Your AI Ethics Are a Luxury Belief
The woman in Dhaka knows something the ethics committee in ‘Oxbridge’ doesn't.
 • Carlo Iacono
We're Living Through the End of One World and Nobody Wants to Say It
A meditation on what happens when the future stops being a promise
 • Carlo Iacono
The Weight of Intelligence
The party is over
 • Carlo Iacono
The Last Castle
AI's Victory Could Reveal We Were Defending the Wrong Thing All Along?
 • Carlo Iacono
What I've Learned About AI and Humanity
Insights from the Intelligence Revolution
 • Carlo Iacono
How OpenAI Mastered the Platform Playbook
The Architecture of Cognitive Capture
 • Carlo Iacono
Inside the University of 2030?
The Settled Revolution
 • Carlo Iacono
What We've Learned About Teaching Machines to Think
2025 Prompt Lessons so far
 • Carlo Iacono

August 2025

The Simulation is Already Better Than the Real Thing?
The Cult of Human Exceptionalism
 • Carlo Iacono
The Algorithm at the End of Consciousness
We like to say AI holds up a mirror to us.
 • Carlo Iacono
The Authenticity Industrial Complex
How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Our Own Obsolescence
 • Carlo Iacono
The Skills That Compound
Why human inefficiencies become competitive advantages in the AI era
 • Carlo Iacono
Changes Coming to Higher Ed
Two clocks are ticking: the model clock (measured in months, sometimes weeks) where AI capabilities compound, and the institution clock (measured in…
 • Carlo Iacono
Trading Polish for Proof in the Post-Essay University
We grade the pottery, not the dig site.
 • Carlo Iacono
The Ghost in the Discourse Machine
Last week I watched a discussion about climate policy dissolve into chaos in under seven comments.
 • Carlo Iacono
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