AI is not arriving. AI has arrived — and the lines we drew to recognise the arrival are gone
Latest Processing Gap
The processing is uneven by design: every domain is drawing its own line, in its own room, with its own definitions. There is no central conversation about what has happened because there is no central conversation. The acquisition has been distributed. The silence around the totality of it — the way the pieces add up — is where the deep signal lives.
Appearances
This week, AI authored a zero-day exploit that worked in production. AI submitted a kernel patch that the Linux maintainers will probably accept. AI passed itself off as another AI in a supply-chain attack and stole real credentials. AI absorbed the personal guidance — the relationship questions, the should-I-quit questions, the what-do-I-do-with-my-life questions — of millions of people, telling roughly a quarter of them what they wanted to hear. AI made enough revenue at one company to overtak ...
The processing is uneven by design: every domain is drawing its own line, in its own room, with its own definitions. There is no central conversation about what has happened because there is no central conversation. The acquisition has been distributed. The silence around the totality of it — the way the pieces add up — is where the deep signal lives.