Technology should amplify the best of us, open new pathways for creativity and cooperation, work with the human grain of our lives and most precious relationships.

technology is not the point of the future, or what’s really at stake. We are.

Ultimately, human beings may no longer be the primary planetary drivers, as we have become accustomed to being. We are going to live in an epoch when the majority of our daily interactions are not with other people but with AIs. This might sound intriguing or horrifying or absurd, but it is happening. I’m guessing you already spend a sizable

The human genome will be an elastic thing, and so, necessarily, will be the very idea of the human itself. Life spans will be much longer than our own. Many will disappear almost entirely into virtual worlds.

Just like us today, the Luddites were in a bind. Their pain and disruption were real, but so too were the improvements in living standards that benefited their children and grandchildren and that are enjoyed unthinkingly by you and me today. Back then, the Luddites failed to contain technology. But humanity adapted anyway. The challenge today is

The blunt challenge of containment is not a reason to turn away; it is a call to action, a generational mission we all need to face.

To those on the front lines, paying the human costs of industrialization, this wasn’t a brave new techno-utopia; it was a world of satanic mills, servitude, and slights.

Intelligence, life, raw power—these are not playthings, and should be treated with the respect, care, and control they deserve. Technologists and the general public alike will have to accept greater levels of oversight and regulation than have ever been the case before.

They see the state as an inherently unstable “shackled Leviathan”: vast and powerful, but held in check by persistent civil societies and norms.