AI is a continuous and narrowing balancing act. Companies unleashing powerful new AI models have to balance safety and speed, but the markets only reward them for the latter. Alignment remains science fiction. Like all technology, AI can be used for good and bad. But when bad could mean auto-hacking a power grid, AI-scamming bank networks or designing new pandemic viruses using only a prompt, freedom enables disasters. Here we have to balance the narrowing path between potentially disastrous freedom with the dystopia of a surveillance state.  Sure, mankind has handled transformational tools before. But not a tool that can create infinite new tools. AI is ultimately the last tool we have to invent, but it will also be mankind's ultimate test. What happens when AI exponentially empowers everyone but also keeps polarising and radicalising us for maximum social media engagement? AI feels democratizing but is ultimately a winner-take-all technology. What happens when AI makes the wealth