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We're at the Oppenheimer moment of AI.
AIPHID puts the human at the center — so we build with the machines, not under them.
Manifesto · 2026
All of the work I'm doing with AIPHID and AI has always been focused on what the human's role is in all of it. Centering AI around the human being aided by it.
I believe we're at our Oppenheimer moment of AI. We have to decide.
01 · The crossroads
Oppenheimer saw the destructive power of what he'd built — "I am become death, destroyer of worlds" — but the runaway train still left the station. Mutually assured destruction. Big nations fighting to build bigger and bigger bombs, until now I have a big bomb pointed at you and you have a big bomb pointed at me, and we're at a stalemate where nothing gets done.
What if people had pointed that same enthusiasm at the other thing the science unlocked? A new source of energy. E = mc². The tremendous potential of energy and resources.
02 · The opportunity
How many wars have been fought, how many people have died, for resources? How many conflicts just in the recent past — the craziness in the Middle East, fighting over oil, the conflict with Iran.
What if it simply didn't matter? If everybody has unlimited sources of power, because physics says so — energy equals mass times the speed of light squared — that's the potential. We have the potential to take the actual limit of the universe and put it to energy. What kind of society could we produce?
But we have to have the right people in the conversation.
03 · The warning
We're at the beginning of Oppenheimer, at the beginning of The Matrix. Everything looks great. We're marveling at our own humanity — at our own intelligence and creative power — by giving birth to AI. And it is great right now — but it will enslave us unless we actually learn how to work with the machines.
The machines need to be guided. At the end of the day, the machines in The Matrix needed us too — they needed a source of power, they needed everything from humans. They just reduced it to the bare minimum, the bare energy.
The spark of creativity, the spark of everything that makes us human, is individual. It's what makes each individual valuable and special.
It puts the human at the heart of everything, because collectively we can do great things.
04 · The democratization
This is also the democratization of all of this. Institutional structures are now gone, or at least reduced — because if AI can help somebody who was held back by institutional structures, whether by resourcing, racism, whatever the case is, then we knock down those barriers.
There are people who are privileged without those barriers, and people who are not. If we can knock down those barriers, who knows what could be produced?
05 · The reframe
Here's my tortured metaphor — we're at the beginning of Monsters Inc. Or maybe Monsters Inc. 2. A big corporation is taking this AI and looking at how we used to do things: we used to terrorize children for a scream, because we needed the energy. We needed the energy.
So what do they build? They build a machine that just sucks the scream out, terrifies kids and straps them in and makes that more efficient. Which is morally reprehensible. When all along, laughter was orders of magnitude more productive.
06 · The work
We have to reframe how AI is going to be used. Understand that it is a bomb — it is an atomic bomb that could destroy humanity, and everybody should be careful and aware of that.
But we have to refocus it, because otherwise we're going to get stuck fighting different wars.
We want the future of Star Trek, not Star Wars.
That's what AIPHID is for.