Nabeel Qureshi: AI's Disruption Is the Disappearance of Social Slack
nabeelqu · x · 2026-09-29
Nabeel Qureshi frames AI's disruption of social order — from cyberrisk and biorisk to trivial things like restaurant reservations — as the disappearance of "slack": the gap between what's possible in principle and what actually gets done. Slack historically came from three sources: effort (things too tedious to bother with, like security through obscurity), institutional capacity (dysfunctional organizations), and headcount. Quoting Will Manidis on the jagged legal frontier: much of the law is under-litigated because the dollars were never there, a pattern already shifting in NYC housing court.
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