Superintelligence may already be civilization itself
allisondman · x · 2026-07-20
This clip centers on a broader argument: **we already live inside a kind of superintelligence called civilization**. The conversation frames humans, institutions, and AI agents as interacting inside one large economy. The speaker argues that the practical task is not just building smarter models, but preparing AI-enabled institutions that sit on top of existing social systems and make them work better. Another point is that science has historically benefited from openness, while frontier models are increasingly surrounded by guardrails and restrictions; from that perspective, open-source AI plus community compute may become the only independent path for doing serious science outside the big labs.
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