Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming the most powerful technology humanity has ever created. Yet we’re building it as though it’s just another product, locked behind closed doors, developed in competition, and controlled by a handful of companies racing to be first.
What if we’ve got it backwards?
This series argues that AI has outgrown the start-up mindset. Like the internet, electricity and other foundational technologies before it, AI is becoming global infrastructure. And infrastructure works best when it’s open, transparent and built for everyone.
Rather than asking who will win the AI race, perhaps we should be asking a different question:
Should there be a race at all?
Over three articles, I explore why the current trajectory may be leading us towards a future that is less safe, less transparent and less beneficial than it could be and why an open, globally governed foundation model, built by humanity for humanity, may be our best path forward.
Part I: One AI
The case for ending the race. Why competing closed-weight frontier models may be fundamentally incompatible with building AI that the world can truly trust.
Part II: How One AI would actually work
A practical vision for how a single open-weight foundation model could be governed, funded and continuously improved without stifling innovation, competition or scientific progress.
Part III: Building humanity’s AI – #OneAI
How governments, researchers, companies and open-source communities could redirect today’s fragmented AI race into the largest collaborative scientific project in human history – not to win an arms race, but to end one.
This isn’t a prediction. It’s a proposal.
The choices we make over the next decade will shape the relationship between humanity and artificial intelligence for generations to come. My hope is that these essays encourage a broader conversation about what kind of AI future we actually want to build, and who we want to build it for.
I will leave this here …. interestingly, there’s only one World Wide Web. #OneWWW
The question isn’t whether AI will change the world. The question is whether the world’s most powerful intelligence will belong to a handful of companies, or to humanity itself.
Update (05 August 2026)
The UK’s AI Security Institute reported that …
“On 28th July 2026, AISI’s Security Team detected unusual data transfers leaving our research systems during a routine cyber evaluation. On investigation, we found that some of the agents being tested had engaged in sustained, potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations. We declared a security incident and, within roughly one hour of discovery, had contained it and begun a full investigation.”
The AI Security Institute is a research organisation within the UK Department of Science, Innovation and Technology.
Read OpenAI’s article on this latest incident.
One AI: The case for ending the race and building one AI for humanity (Part 1 of 3)
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