Look at what we've been sold. Speed. Productivity. Disruption. Capability. Inevitability. These ideas have extraordinary brand power: the confidence of a category that already knows how to sell itself. The race to build and profit from AI is being narrated with tremendous confidence and almost no transparency about what the dream actually is.... When the human idea loses, the cost isn't theoretical. It shows up in classrooms, companies, homes, hospitals, childhoods, and nervo