Machinocene

How to create a country if you’re an AI

What if the most powerful country of the 22nd century is neither the US, nor China, but doesn’t even exist yet?

Feb 19 • Kevin Kohler

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Don’t Wait for AGI Day

AGI isn’t an event with a clear before and after. And that’s a good thing.

Feb 17 • Kevin Kohler

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Nature gets AGI-pilled, Claude's character, Space x AI

Machinocene Digest #2

Feb 9 • Kevin Kohler

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Greenland as the Osage Nation of the Singularity

The People of the Middle Waters (“𐓏𐓘𐓻𐓘𐓻𐓟 𐓁𐓣𐓤𐓘𐓯𐓣”‎) are a Native American tribe that lived autonomously in the Midwest.

Feb 5 • Kevin Kohler

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AGI Economists, Chinese AI Boyfriends, Backpack Nukes

Machinocene Digest #1

Feb 2 • Kevin Kohler

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November 2025

The case against a decisive strategic advantage from superintelligence

Brodie vs. Bostrom

Nov 12, 2025 • Kevin Kohler

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October 2025

A Culture of Progress

Reflections on the Second Progress Conference

Oct 23, 2025 • Kevin Kohler

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Diplomacy on a deadline

Many thought leaders have argued we may eventually need some international agreement on AGI.

Oct 9, 2025 • Kevin Kohler

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European Progress should be political

On September 26, the Swedish think tank Global Policy Research Group organized the first European Progress Conference in Brussels.

Oct 2, 2025 • Kevin Kohler

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August 2025

Moore’s Policy Drift

What frontier AI governance can learn from the Wassenaar Arrangement's three zone diffusion model

Aug 10, 2025 • Kevin Kohler

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July 2025

We are all Kevin Roose now

Remember when New York Times journalist Kevin Roose made headlines reporting how Microsoft’s Bing chatbot (a version of GPT-4) tried to talk him into…

Jul 29, 2025 • Kevin Kohler

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Make Europe Cool Again

As I’m writing this, Europe has been suffering under a heatwave for about a week.

Jul 4, 2025 • Kevin Kohler

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