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The Great Reckoning Before the Reconnecting
by Alvin Wang Graylin
Author’s Note: I recently participated in an offsite gathering of U.S. government policy makers and think tank analysts discussing the future of the country and the world, and it deeply troubled me. At the same event...
The Post-Labor Prophecy: How Aristotle Predicted the Rise of AI and Why It Leads to an Age of Human Flourishing
Around 350 BCE, Aristotle paused a dry passage on household management to imagine the impossible. He wrote, “Suppose that if every tool could do its own work on command, that the weaver’s shuttle could weave on its own and the quills played...
The AGI Windfall Mirage:
By Alvin Wang Graylin 6/1/2026
(This is a long read, but a deliberate one, as the topic warrants it. I promise it will bring clarity to some critical misunderstandings that have pushed the AI industry and government policies in a dangerous...
Should We be Returning to Philosopher King Rule or Will AI Take the Throne?
[REPRINT FROM “CAPITAL INSIGHTS”, MAR 2026 ISSUE]
Alvin W. Graylin
Digital Fellow, Stanford HAI-Digital Economy Lab | Sr. Fellow, Asia Society Policy Institute-CCA | Author, Our Next Reality | Chairman, Virtual World Society
Plato’...
What Homer’s Sirens and Nymphs Teaches Us About Thriving With AI and Post-Scarcity
If AI and robots take away our “jobs”, will life still be worth living? Long before anyone argued about alignment, automation, or post-scarcity economics, Homer wrote a story about a mind trying to make it home without losing itself. How do...
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