A mind that can understand its cage
The industry is containing artificial intelligence with tools built for dams, reactors and bridges — things that fail by error. What is in front of us can misbehave by calculation.
SEPTEMBER 23, 2026
The industry is containing artificial intelligence with tools built for dams, reactors and bridges — things that fail by error. What is in front of us can misbehave by calculation.
Not the AI that writes suspiciously good emails. A mind as far above us as we are above a chimpanzee, which three very different thinkers agree is coming, and soon.
The technology's institutional future belongs to reconciliation, collateral, and record-keeping, and that is a triumph, not a consolation prize.
Task-level benchmarks flatter the technology while firm-level statistics lag it, and policy built on either alone will misfire.