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Middleway Blog & Craig's Blog

Deep dives into the economics, philosophy, and geopolitics of the AI Middle Way.

Middleway Blog

Featured Profile
February 2026

Nadiem Makarim: From Gojek to "Freedom to Learn"

How Indonesia's most unlikely education minister proved that the question isn't what to teach in the age of AI — but how to create learners who can continuously adapt. The model the AI Middle Way scales across four nations.

Craig's Blog

Craig Warren Smith
Essay
by Craig Warren Smith
February 2026

Howl for the Digital Dispossessed

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, the shame of unintended consequences, and a defiant howl for the Middle Way.

Core Ideas Series

February 2026

AGI and the AI Middle Way

Why the race to Artificial General Intelligence ignores what matters — and why consciousness must direct intelligence, not the reverse.
February 2026

Fragmented AI Policy Is the Road to Autocracy

Why the US/China split is producing surveillance states across the Global South, and why the window to change course is closing.
February 2026

Whatever Happened to "AI Safety"?

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.
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