October 6, 2026

Hellooooooo @ the world. This is my first blog post. I’m currently on a train back to Union Station, Chicago, from my home state of Michigan, and had a few thoughts I wanted to write about.

First: Recently, a new startup called ghost.ai launched a new product called Core. Core is this roughly $3,000 machine that runs local AI models, and connects to the smart home and your digital life: everything from your WHOOP band to your Nest thermostat to your Samsung Smart fridge. It is literally the core of your digital world, hence the name. It’s sort of a genius idea, just ahead of its time, overpriced, and most likely to have a short lifespan: when robots begin to do the same at a lower price point, I believe most of Core’s target audience will go to that instead. Like a humanoid robot with a brain and LLM installed. Very interesting to see what tech is doing; loving these new ideas. I still think AI in its current form is a bubble, though, and I really want to see it pop. Instead of building the things humanity needs (cancer cures, bringing more peace to countries, making rapid advancement in technologies that benefit MOST of humanity instead of SOME of humanity), it is instead being used to take away the very originality we have spent millennia curating and developing. Music, the arts, and design do NOT need to be automated and are NOT problems to be solved. Could they be enhanced? Yes, most things can and should be. But enhancement is not equal to replacement. And it shouldn’t be. I would love to see the people trying to automate the arts actually make something memorable or something that is able to be appreciated by most communities, instead of appealing to the AI bros who think we should point the world’s most powerful technology at eradicating the very species that built it.

Second: More AI speak incoming here. I think sovereign AI is the future. For the reader who may not be into the inner workings, sovereign AI can be explained like this:

Think about general transportation. More specifically, cars. Cars can be bought and sold at the owner’s will, or rented. We, as users of ChatGPT or Claude or what-have-you, rent out usage of these models, hence the limitations to photo uploads or the 5-hour limit of usage for those of us on subscription plans for these products. Now think about the buying and selling of cars. We can use cars we own to drive and do whatever else we want with them: a custom paint job, new tires or rims, a new bodykit, or new shocks for off-road terrain. With this thinking applied to AI, we can use our hardware (like a Mac or server) to locally host our Chats or Claudes, eliminating the need for usage limits. When we host locally, we OWN our output, and datacenters aren’t sucking up water for cooling, eliminating the environmental toll AI would usually take. Anthropic or OpenAI can’t touch any of our output, steal our data, or use what we feed our models for training because it’s ours! That is the future, and we should not continue to let the Anthropics or OpenAIs of the world use our data so they can become our competition and wipe out our ideas.

Third & last: According to just about everyone, we are in the ‘end times’ or close to diverging into complete chaos. Someone who lived through decades past would agree that the 2020s feel like the most uncertain time in recent human history. Gas prices continue to rise; our lovely tech overlords continue to tell us that the jobs we’re currently working toward are about to be vaporized by AI; and rising geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and Slavic regions seem to have most of our leaders on edge, pouring hundreds of billions into defense spend (we now have laser cannons and autonomous, AI-powered drones that can destroy things using prompts). Yeah, some seriously dangerous territory has been entered, and it could culminate in mass annihilation of the human race. Yet I still believe there’s a chance after this wave of uncertainty for a real post-AI renaissance to occur. Imagine a world where the economy is automated. AI has finally made its way into most parts of the average human’s life. Ok, fine. People are already experiencing this feeling now.

This, I believe, would lead into a new frontier for actual human connection. Forget Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram; your Twitter, too. Live music, book clubs, fashion shows: the arts and everything else that made humans actually human would begin to insulate themselves from the appetite of those aforementioned eat-everything techpeople and flourish as a result. We are already seeing this sort of sentiment with the return of wired EarPods, artists like Phoebe Bridgers not allowing phones at her shows, or even DJs like Berlin-based Keinemusik not allowing phones at their CircoLoco/DC10 events.

People are longing for a return to form and meaning. The 80s, 90s, and somewhat the 2000s are all sought after 40, 30, or 20 years later because humans had connections that were real and cherished.