Unmetered Intelligence

We are entering a world where intelligence itself is becoming abundant.

Models that were prohibitively expensive a few years ago are now effectively free. Capabilities once reserved for elite institutions are becoming widely accessible. Like electricity, bandwidth, or literacy before it, intelligence is beginning to behave less like a scarce resource and more like infrastructure.

This moment invites us to revisit how we work, learn, create, govern, parent, and relate to one another. It gives us the opportunity to ask difficult questions about meaning, ambition, creativity, and what forms of struggle are actually worth preserving, even in a world where machines can do almost anything.

For 16 years, I worked to help bring AI into the world, most recently as Head of Go-to-Market at OpenAI. Since then, I’ve spoken in front of more than 300,000 people across dozens of countries, participated in 450+ board meetings, led 100+ AI workshops, and spent thousands of hours with leaders, educators, policymakers, parents, and business owners trying to make sense of what comes next.

One thing has become increasingly clear to me: the same person trying to understand how to get ahead with AI is also trying to understand what kind of world their children are inheriting.

There are plenty of people explaining how to make money with AI. There are also plenty of people painting dystopian pictures of the future. My goal is to explore the space in between: how we ensure technological progress expands human flourishing rather than hollowing it out. Neither of these futures is inevitable.

The antidote to fatalism is agency.

This newsletter is my attempt to frame constructive responsibility as a reasonable alternative to ambient dread.