Essays, explainers, and working notes from the TCA team on openly governed AI, the trust layer, and the institutions that keep participation broad.
Fire, wings and the middle way. What the myths of Prometheus and Icarus ask of us in a year when AI began producing answers faster than we can understand them, and why the greatest achievement of fire was the fireplace.
Read the essayFrontier labs now propose to slow themselves down. Two questions are worth asking before anyone applauds: who is making this decision, and what exactly is the “capability” that is supposedly running ahead of us?
Read the essayThe question is not whether too much money is chasing AI. It is that the ability to raise capital has become the market’s measure of credibility — and what that concentration costs the ideas that arrive without the largest check.
Read the essayOur response to the 24 July letter from AI leaders: Why scientific discovery depends on a technology commons that reaches beyond open weights.
Read the essayOn open ecosystems and the tradition of peer review, the concentration reshaping AI, the trust layer that lets open systems be adopted seriously, and the three pillars of TCA’s work.
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