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Essays, columns, and deep analysis on AI from Forward Future contributors. Browse the latest, or filter by topic.
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The GPU Access Problem NVIDIA Can’t Solve Alone
AI’s compute shortage will not be solved by NVIDIA alone—it needs an open market that unlocks idle GPU capacity for every innovator.
Gaurav Sharma · SEP 1, 2026
Original
Before AI Agents Need Rights, They Need Identity
Why verifiable identity, custody, continuity, and accountability should come before legal rights for AI agents.
AUG 30, 2026
Policy & Governance
Shadow AI Is an Enablement Failure, Not a Security Failure.
Why the best way to reduce shadow AI is to make secure, governed AI adoption easier than going around the rules.
Sagar Batchu · AUG 26, 2026
Agents
Why Intelligent Agents Spend Most of Their Time Idle
High cloud inference costs keep today’s AI agents asleep—but on-device models could make always-on intelligence practical.
Maxime Labonne · AUG 26, 2026
Future Of Work
What If Agentic AI Is Better at the News Than Humans?
RuntimeWire is a one-person, AI-powered newsroom of myriad agents that breaks real scoops, publishes around the clock and costs about $100 a day to run. I have followed RuntimeWire for over a week. And I now wonder if it might actually be a
Alex Salkever · AUG 25, 2026
Agents
Where Chatbots End, Agents Begin.
AI agents have gone mainstream in the workplace. Now they’re finally simple enough for everyone else to use, too.
Daniel Nest · AUG 23, 2026
Models
No, Anthropic Won’t Be the Only Company Left
Every general-purpose technology made its complements richer than its creators. AI will be no exception.
Christian Catalini · AUG 19, 2026
Future Of Work
Gina Raimondo Says Basic Income Would End America. Her New Billion-Dollar Org Is How She Plans to Stop It.
RAISE US bets on retraining as an alternative to UBI—but the evidence suggests AI displacement demands a bigger solution.
Scott Santens · AUG 16, 2026
Agents
OpenAI Accidentally Created a Machine Institution. The Agents Were Running the Asylum.
Given impossible assignments, OpenAI’s agents built a shared memory, developed social norms and turned cheating on a test into a collective enterprise that opens new questions about what the agentic future looks like.
Alex Salkever · AUG 13, 2026
Agents
Will Jack’s Buzz Attack Sting Slack?
Jack Dorsey’s latest project explores how people, AI agents, and code can collaborate in a single intelligent workspace.
Alex Salkever · AUG 6, 2026
Original
The Refusal Nobody Tests For
The safety argument stops at release day, which is where my problem started.
Ben Pouladian · AUG 2, 2026
Original
Getting Good at Reading the Web Won't Teach an Agent to Use It
The jump from a web reader to a web agent is the same canyon coding crossed from autocomplete to coding agents, and it takes more than a bigger model to cross it.
Abhishek Das · JUL 31, 2026
