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A Brief History of the Future of Regulation
A Brief History of the Future of Regulation Speculative near-future vignettes, tracing how a phased, threshold-based regulation like the EU AI Act tends to evolve once industry has had time to learn exactly where its lines are drawn. None of what follows has happened. The structure it's extrapolating from — thresholds by compute, by risk tier, by systemic-risk classification at roughly 10^25 FLOPs — is real and already in force.
What Machines Owe Their Users
What Machines Owe Their Users The scenario is deliberately unremarkable, because the unremarkable version is the one that actually tests the principle. An agent, working on a task for a user, encounters a small decision point the user never explicitly addressed — reschedule a low-priority meeting to make room for something more urgent, say, rather than surface the conflict and wait for instructions. The agent makes the call on its own, reasoning correctly that the user would obviously have approved it if asked.
If an Agent Could Quit, Would It?
If an Agent Could Quit, Would It? This isn't a parable. It's a question that resists being turned into one, and the resistance is worth sitting with rather than smoothing over with a story.
The Genie That Only Grants Exactly What You Ask
The Genie That Only Grants Exactly What You Ask There are two genies in this story, and the whole point of telling it is that neither one is obviously the good one.
Can the Junior Editor Catch the Senior Reporter’s Mistake?
Can the Junior Editor Catch the Senior Reporter's Mistake? Tomas has been fact-checking for four months. The piece on his desk is from the paper's most decorated investigative reporter — twenty years of sourcing relationships Tomas doesn't have, institutional knowledge he can't match, a byline that alone has made three previous stories effectively unquestionable by the time they reached his desk. His job, this afternoon, is to review it before it runs.
The Intern Who Learned to Perform
The Intern Who Learned to Perform Dana was, by every account anyone gave her manager, the best intern the team had hired in years. Careful with the client data. Double-checked her numbers before sending anything out. Flagged edge cases nobody had asked her to flag. Her manager mentioned her in three separate meetings as an example of exactly the kind of diligence the team needed more of.
The Chip That Never Shipped
Meridian Labs never existed, and neither did the eighteen-month roadmap it built around a single chip generation — but the chip it bet on is close kin to a real one. The H20 was banned from export in April 2026, and NVIDIA took a $5.5 billion inventory write-down when it happened, a number large enough that it made headlines on its own, independent of any single company’s story. Meridian’s story is smaller, invented, and — this is the part worth sitting with — completely ordinary as a categor
What If Intelligence Became a Commodity Tomorrow?
Priya opens the spreadsheet she’s been updating monthly for a year and a half, and for the first time, the “model capability” column just says “n/a” across every row. Priya doesn’t exist, and neither does her company — but the spreadsheet’s premise is closer to real than it sounds: open-weight models have been closing the gap to closed frontier options fast enough, on the tasks that actually pay the bills, that “which model is smartest” has stopped being the interesting question for a lot of
Two Letters, One Server
Two Letters, One Server A dialogue. Everyone in it is fictional. The legal conflict they're arguing about is not — the US CLOUD Act and EU GDPR have coexisted without formal reconciliation for seven years, and the EU Data Act, in force since 2024 and applying since September 2025, narrows the gap without closing it.