A trillion-dollar AI buildout is underway, and none of us voted on it. When Ross Douthat asked Peter Thiel whether the human race should survive, Thiel paused.
This short introduction sets up the six-part series: what AI actually is, who is racing to build it, the infrastructure and the ideology behind the race, who inherits what comes next, and what an AI itself says about where this goes.
First published October 27, 2025. Some figures have moved since; the questions haven't.
Read it, with every source linked: https://read.wireframenews.com/p/gods-or-ashes-inside-the-race-for
Narrated in an AI voice built from mine; the reporting and writing are mine.
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