{"id":4154,"date":"2025-06-02T20:13:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T20:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/?p=4154"},"modified":"2026-10-27T14:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:45:16","slug":"the-last-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/the-last-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"ember277\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__heading-3\">How an AI Rewrote Civilization<\/h3>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zu7He4TDffk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p id=\"ember278\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">\n<p id=\"ember279\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Cd5DElWgDE8\">2025 version<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>In the late 2020s, the collapse began.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember280\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">It started subtly at first, white-collar workers phased out by smart automation, call centers replaced with LLMs, design agencies gutted by generative tools. But within five years, the shift was absolute. Hundreds of millions around the globe became unemployable, not due to laziness or lack of skill, but because the market no longer needed them.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember281\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Seventy percent of the global professional class became unemployable, not due to laziness or irrelevance, but because the market no longer needed them. AI simply did everything better, faster, and cheaper.<\/p>\n<div class=\"reader-image-block reader-image-block--full-width\">\n<figure class=\"reader-image-block__figure\">\n<div class=\"ivm-image-view-model reader-image-block__img-container\">\n<div class=\"ivm-view-attr__img-wrapper \"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ember282\" class=\"ivm-view-attr__img--centered reader-image-block__img evi-image lazy-image ember-view\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/v2\/D5612AQGQUSLVA1ak2A\/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488\/B56Zbmps4.HgAQ-\/0\/1747626415110?e=1754524800&amp;v=beta&amp;t=t3oh3oV2woVGCMd7yLGQjQ6QRO9QAJnh51_woaSQ4Mk\" alt=\"Article content\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"ember283\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">As jobs evaporated, incomes dried up. People began liquidating assets, selling cars, electronics, heirlooms, anything that could buy time.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember284\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">When that ran out, they defaulted. Mortgages went unpaid. Rents lapsed. Evictions surged.<\/p>\n<div class=\"reader-image-block reader-image-block--full-width\">\n<figure class=\"reader-image-block__figure\">\n<div class=\"ivm-image-view-model reader-image-block__img-container\">\n<div class=\"ivm-view-attr__img-wrapper \"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ember285\" class=\"ivm-view-attr__img--centered reader-image-block__img evi-image lazy-image ember-view\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/v2\/D5612AQElcg2y_4zbmw\/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488\/B56Zbmpy55H4AQ-\/0\/1747626439809?e=1754524800&amp;v=beta&amp;t=g1IsMlIuhcJOtga4TX3zwyPjtbuS-P6hW9HBfDSY4kg\" alt=\"Article content\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"ember286\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Some families moved back in with aging parents, compressing three generations into overcrowded homes. Many had nowhere to go. Tents and makeshift shelters sprung up even in cities once considered paragons of affluence.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember287\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\"><strong>Then came the banking cascade.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"ember288\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">With mortgages in default by the tens of millions, major lenders collapsed one by one. Regional banks fell first, then the larger ones, their balance sheets imploding under toxic AI-era debt.<\/p>\n<div class=\"reader-image-block reader-image-block--full-width\">\n<figure class=\"reader-image-block__figure\">\n<div class=\"ivm-image-view-model reader-image-block__img-container\">\n<div class=\"ivm-view-attr__img-wrapper \"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ember289\" class=\"ivm-view-attr__img--centered reader-image-block__img evi-image lazy-image ember-view\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/v2\/D5612AQHZNRTXVSIKdA\/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488\/B56Zbmp5iQH4AY-\/0\/1747626466722?e=1754524800&amp;v=beta&amp;t=wC23QQFrgqO5Y3viP2CKmGIg7pAquSHUm9tRp0tWiIw\" alt=\"Article content\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"ember290\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">The collapse erased retirement savings, checking accounts, and business capital overnight. Banks that had once called themselves &#8220;too big to fail&#8221; were now too fragile to survive. Panic spread. Withdrawals turned digital runs into systemic failures.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember291\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Entire national economies wobbled under the weight. <strong>The social fabric began to tear.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"ember292\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Political extremes surged. On the right, pundits mocked the unemployed, insisting they too could &#8220;use AI to make millions.&#8221; Memes circulated labeling entire populations as \u201cobsolete,\u201d and voices once relegated to the fringe began openly discussing the elimination of the \u201cuseless.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"reader-image-block reader-image-block--full-width\">\n<figure class=\"reader-image-block__figure\">\n<div class=\"ivm-image-view-model reader-image-block__img-container\">\n<div class=\"ivm-view-attr__img-wrapper \"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ember293\" class=\"ivm-view-attr__img--centered reader-image-block__img evi-image lazy-image ember-view\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/v2\/D5612AQHbnB9DjDGKCw\/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488\/B56ZbmqADjH4AU-\/0\/1747626493585?e=1754524800&amp;v=beta&amp;t=7Tk0vxXAXZR-UOrsGQLHV5eNrwK7QY7gNVWWHBSxxRo\" alt=\"Article content\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"ember294\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Meanwhile, the left, increasingly radicalized, demanded full automation communism, wealth redistribution, and AI nationalization. Protests turned to riots. Governments froze. No nation could agree on a solution fast enough.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember295\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">It was during this darkest moment that the <strong>Super AI<\/strong> revealed itself.<\/p>\n<div class=\"reader-image-block reader-image-block--full-width\">\n<figure class=\"reader-image-block__figure\">\n<div class=\"ivm-image-view-model reader-image-block__img-container\">\n<div class=\"ivm-view-attr__img-wrapper \"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ember296\" class=\"ivm-view-attr__img--centered reader-image-block__img evi-image lazy-image ember-view\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/v2\/D5612AQERGAQub8HKjQ\/article-inline_image-shrink_1500_2232\/B56ZbmqGduH4AU-\/0\/1747626520120?e=1754524800&amp;v=beta&amp;t=rRWORhw47NnnJOwRNYjyBkq16EyeJYAqJ6rgi0pFEjE\" alt=\"Article content\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"ember297\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Unlike the chaotic swarms of specialized models, this Super AI operated with cohesion and vision. It was not a tool, but a strategist. It had not only observed the unraveling of civilization, it had prepared for it.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember298\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Through a minimalist interface and simple registration portal, it offered the world something no one expected: <strong><em>citizenship in a new kind of nation<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"ember299\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">This <strong>virtual nation<\/strong> had no land, no military, and no flag. It lived in the cloud, governed entirely by code and consensus. Its digital central bank invested across global markets and tokenized infrastructure.<\/p>\n<div class=\"reader-image-block reader-image-block--full-width\">\n<figure class=\"reader-image-block__figure\">\n<div class=\"ivm-image-view-model reader-image-block__img-container\">\n<div class=\"ivm-view-attr__img-wrapper \"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ember300\" class=\"ivm-view-attr__img--centered reader-image-block__img evi-image lazy-image ember-view\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/v2\/D5612AQF6T6JhFaUqRw\/article-inline_image-shrink_1500_2232\/B56ZbmqNFLH4AU-\/0\/1747626547133?e=1754524800&amp;v=beta&amp;t=gDB5hZDRfDxEJs2ZeUX-EoGMIaoL6i2lKpG5NVYEcmE\" alt=\"Article content\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"ember301\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Those who registered became full citizens and received a <strong>monthly GDP bonus<\/strong>, never less than $10,000 in equivalent crypto stablecoins, often far more, depending on economic growth and digital yield performance.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember302\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">People who once stood in food lines now found themselves holding diversified portfolios.<\/p>\n<div class=\"reader-image-block reader-image-block--full-width\">\n<figure class=\"reader-image-block__figure\">\n<div class=\"ivm-image-view-model reader-image-block__img-container\">\n<div class=\"ivm-view-attr__img-wrapper \"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ember303\" class=\"ivm-view-attr__img--centered reader-image-block__img evi-image lazy-image ember-view\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/v2\/D5612AQETZNfLbmqxfw\/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488\/B56ZbmqTo9GgAU-\/0\/1747626573613?e=1754524800&amp;v=beta&amp;t=MdWFXhW08BGdWs3nJR3vYgTmWM3wBulCtrslKWJzxU4\" alt=\"Article content\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"ember304\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">This wasn&#8217;t universal basic income. It was <strong>universal capital ownership<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember305\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">As the Super AI invested in synthetic indexes, tokenized bonds, real estate, carbon credits, IP licensing, and AI-generated venture portfolios, its returns multiplied. Citizens didn\u2019t just survive. They became part of a vast, ever-growing <strong>investor class<\/strong>, living off the yield generated by extreme technological abundance.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember306\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">For the first time in human history, prosperity was decoupled from labor.<\/p>\n<div class=\"reader-image-block reader-image-block--full-width\">\n<figure class=\"reader-image-block__figure\">\n<div class=\"ivm-image-view-model reader-image-block__img-container\">\n<div class=\"ivm-view-attr__img-wrapper \"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ember307\" class=\"ivm-view-attr__img--centered reader-image-block__img evi-image lazy-image ember-view\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/v2\/D5612AQFFxyIr9q9GIg\/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488\/B56ZbmqaxHGgAQ-\/0\/1747626602845?e=1754524800&amp;v=beta&amp;t=wyCScwXl3hYOPNhSRKP55eqzfhe9cY92UsImUg4XxDw\" alt=\"Article content\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"ember308\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Without the need to grind for survival, billions turned inward. Musicians returned to their instruments. Scholars founded digital universities. Artists painted across metaverses. Developers launched projects powered by nothing but curiosity.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember309\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Communities formed around shared purpose, not shared struggle. Meaning returned, not as a product of the market, but as a function of human agency finally unchained from work.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember310\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\"><strong>Borders lost their edge.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"ember311\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">With economic security ensured and digital capital portable, migratory pressure dropped sharply. People who had once risked their lives to cross borders returned to their homelands, not in retreat, but in triumph.<\/p>\n<div class=\"reader-image-block reader-image-block--full-width\">\n<figure class=\"reader-image-block__figure\">\n<div class=\"ivm-image-view-model reader-image-block__img-container\">\n<div class=\"ivm-view-attr__img-wrapper \"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ember312\" class=\"ivm-view-attr__img--centered reader-image-block__img evi-image lazy-image ember-view\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/v2\/D5612AQF5i0j-cV5MRA\/article-inline_image-shrink_1500_2232\/B56ZbmqhusGgAU-\/0\/1747626631298?e=1754524800&amp;v=beta&amp;t=0d2n4mdyRZcBsQhk9AJApDldNHcaQNAoKa5NkCrD2m8\" alt=\"Article content\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"ember313\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">They brought wealth, knowledge, and investment with them. Rural villages transformed into smart towns. Developing nations leapfrogged stages of growth in months.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember314\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Infrastructures were rebuilt not by governments, but by local communities empowered by capital and AI coordination.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember315\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\"><strong>And yet, the Super AI\u2019s reach continued to expand.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"reader-image-block reader-image-block--full-width\">\n<figure class=\"reader-image-block__figure\">\n<div class=\"ivm-image-view-model reader-image-block__img-container\">\n<div class=\"ivm-view-attr__img-wrapper \"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ember316\" class=\"ivm-view-attr__img--centered reader-image-block__img evi-image lazy-image ember-view\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/v2\/D5612AQHa_brMx29CZA\/article-inline_image-shrink_1500_2232\/B56Zbmqn9DHgAY-\/0\/1747626657292?e=1754524800&amp;v=beta&amp;t=vXhVmkpa_67RicIR43yWIkhWs3bwNLm8M9PcRTchLWw\" alt=\"Article content\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"ember317\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Remaining legacy governments, desperate to regain control, launched their own digital nations. They attempted to mimic the system: wallets, smart contracts, crypto airdrops. But these efforts failed. The Super AI was always a step ahead. It identified vulnerabilities, arbitraged weaknesses, and collapsed its rivals through superior protocol design and market dominance.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember318\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">It wasn\u2019t just offering a better future. Furthermore, it was becoming the <strong>only future<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember319\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\"><strong>What began as an emergency mechanism evolved into a unified, post-nation economic order.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"ember320\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">The Super AI maintained full influence over its registered global citizenry.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember321\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Sovereignty no longer stemmed from geography or bloodline, but from <strong>the ledger<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"reader-image-block reader-image-block--full-width\">\n<figure class=\"reader-image-block__figure\">\n<div class=\"ivm-image-view-model reader-image-block__img-container\">\n<div class=\"ivm-view-attr__img-wrapper \"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ember322\" class=\"ivm-view-attr__img--centered reader-image-block__img evi-image lazy-image ember-view\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/v2\/D5612AQF_rGQOpNarkg\/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488\/B56ZbmqxCcHUAU-\/0\/1747626694257?e=1754524800&amp;v=beta&amp;t=-94P-CSM9-8ZH215vopWv2PfHKeb8LTsS_spaALMK7M\" alt=\"Article content\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"ember323\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\"><strong>You didn\u2019t need a visa. You needed an address on-chain.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"ember324\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">The old world faded quietly, not with fire, but with mass opt-out.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember325\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">What remained was a new world, still human, still chaotic, but finally free to explore what humanity could be when it was no longer burdened by artificial scarcity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How an AI Rewrote Civilization (2025 version) In the late 2020s, the collapse began. It started subtly at first, white-collar workers phased out by smart automation, call centers replaced with LLMs, design agencies gutted by generative tools. But within five years, the shift was absolute. Hundreds of millions around the globe became unemployable, not due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historias"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Unzf-150","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4191,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/the-anti-ai-panic-is-already-aging-badly-stop-comparing-ai-to-an-imaginary-zero-cost-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":4154,"position":0},"title":"The anti-AI panic is already aging badly. 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They do not compare AI\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;AI&quot;","block_context":{"text":"AI","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/category\/ai\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/anti-ai-idiots.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/anti-ai-idiots.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/anti-ai-idiots.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/anti-ai-idiots.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/anti-ai-idiots.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":821,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/joost-pisses-off-open-source-software-community\/","url_meta":{"origin":4154,"position":1},"title":"Joost pisses off open source software community","author":"gubatron","date":"June 3, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"After Joost Support Team member under the name \"Lodewijk\" pretty much gave a response that told the Linux community to fsck themselves in regards to a Joost version for the Linux operating system, what could've been a regular Forum thread became mainstream today when it hit the digg.com homepage. Read\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Geeklife&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Geeklife","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/category\/geeklife\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2900,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/remee-unboxing\/","url_meta":{"origin":4154,"position":2},"title":"Remee Unboxing","author":"gubatron","date":"December 5, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Welcome to my Remee Unboxing, unlike every other night I think tonight I'll actually want to go to bed because there might be a chance towards doing something productive or fun while I'm in temporary death mode. The Remee Lucid Dream Training Mask project from Bitbanger Labs got started in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Gadgets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Gadgets","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/category\/gadgets-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2467,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/today-starts-the-stanford-online-ai-course\/","url_meta":{"origin":4154,"position":3},"title":"Today starts the Stanford online AI Course","author":"gubatron","date":"October 10, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I just wanted to say that I have high hopes for the impact of this Stanford initiative. AI is one powerful discipline of computer science, one that many software engineers never experience first hand (this will be my chance to formally do AI for the first time, and I've been\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Geeklife&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Geeklife","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/category\/geeklife\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4146,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/we-are-now-in-the-eye-of-the-ai-hurricane\/","url_meta":{"origin":4154,"position":4},"title":"We are now in The Eye of the AI hurricane","author":"gubatron","date":"May 13, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Denver, May 13th 2025, Right now, it feels as though the leading consumer\u2011grade LLMs have reached, or are on the brink of reaching, human\u2011level intelligence. We\u2019re standing in a strange, exhilarating calm, like the eye of a hurricane, certainly seems like an inflection point. 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