THE GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS OF 2028
The best time to jump out of the flaming balloon is now, the second best time is never
In 2008 we had the “GFC”, as in “Global Financial Crisis”; this Substack piece from Citrini Research writes a speculative post-mortem of the “Global Intelligence Crisis” of 2028.
The “GIC” doesn’t mean the world tipped into a disorderly state of rampant idiocy (that’s already happened), but the opposite: the intelligence systems we started deploying in the early 20s got so good, they brought about a deflationary economic implosion.
Reading it kept me awake a couple of nights, if I’m honest about it. I forwarded copies to my C-team at easyDNS and sent it around to some CEO colleagues.
Tellingly, I decided not to run it in our AxisOfEasy tech digest, because it was just too unsettling. I’m still digesting it, but coincidentally some of the messaging I received over the same period of time as I was reading it seemed to confirm the premises therein.
From an AI ringer I was hiring to stand up some MCP servers in front of our APIs1:
“Honestly, I’ve had an interesting 2 weeks. My workplace has bee…
