BLOGS
Deep dives into the economics, philosophy, and geopolitics of the AI Middle Way.
Two-tiered marketing and the 2.1 billion people the AI sector cannot see — why AI won't reach the global lower-middle class through the same commercial machine that serves the affluent world.
Latin America enters 2026 split down the middle — a conservative Pacific bloc against the Atlantic giants. Can a dignity-centered AI Middle Way align left and right around activating the lower-middle class?
Standing on the shore at Puerto Vallarta, just shy of 80, Craig Warren Smith channels Allen Ginsberg — a reckoning with fifty years of digital equity work, and a defiant howl for the Middle Way.
Core Ideas Series
Why the race to Artificial General Intelligence ignores what matters — and why consciousness must direct intelligence, not the reverse.
Why the US/China split is producing surveillance states across the Global South, and why the window to change course is closing.
From Turing's prophecy to Bletchley Park and back again — how the world's best chance at AI governance was killed, and why a narrow window remains.