The AI Reckoning
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First given at National College of Ireland, 29 September 2026
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When the machines are smarter than all of us, who do we get to be?
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In 1903, the New York Times predicted flying machines would be built in one to ten million years. The Wright brothers achieved the first powered flight 69 days later.
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Six measurements, one direction. On puzzles it has never seen: 95%, from 6.5%, in 17 months. Every new test we build falls faster than the last.
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AI as tool, as advisor, as digital colleague, as partner. Now we set the goal; it runs the chain. The steam engine did not design better steam engines.
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Lake Michigan, one doubling at a time. By the time it looks dramatic, most of the journey has already happened.
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Homo sapiens. The wise ones. We named ourselves for the one thing we assumed could never be exceeded.
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“AI is not here to take your job; it’s to take away what you don’t want to do.”
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Identity, purpose, meaning, agency. Meaning has never required being the best at something. Sometimes it comes entirely from choosing to do it.
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A durable job is not one AI cannot do. It is one people keep choosing a human for, even when AI could: preference, institutional, accountability, capability.
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A business is a chain of tasks, and the chain moves at the speed of its slowest link. Some weak links are chosen by society, not set by physics.
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The reckoning was never about AI. It was about us.
Who do we get to be?
The ultimate question?
How do we make superintelligence truly care about us while preserving our agency?
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