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You text a friend: “Free tonight?”

You get a reply in five seconds:

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Then, thirty minutes later, Alex (the human) sends:

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Outer rings: everyone gets a gatekeeper layer (like CEOs / heads of state already do), with permissions. Some people will have a “bypass knock” — a phrase, emoji, or codeword that routes straight to the human (“🚨pineapple🚨” = wake me up). The social status question becomes: who has your bypass?

===== Your AI pings you: =====

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It shows receipts, policies, and the exact clause that makes the charge reversible.

You tap Pursue.

By lunch:

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Outer rings: this starts as “upload your statement + a prompt” (doable now), evolves into semi-automated disputes, and ends as personal procurement: your AI watches every renewal email, every “your rate is increasing” notice, every explanation of benefits—and demands machine-readable bills so it can contest them automatically.

===== Your kid asks for a custom video: “Make our dog a knight fighting a dragon.” =====

Your AI replies:

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Ten seconds is $1–$5.
Two minutes is $12–$60.
A two-hour bespoke movie at $0.50/sec is $3,600. OpenAI Platform<ref>{{cite web|title=OpenAI Platform|url=https://platform.openai.com/docs/pricing|publisher=OpenAI Platform|access-date=2026-01-02}}</ref>

Now zoom out:
* Free tier: you get intelligence, but you wait and you get limits. ChatGPT<ref>{{cite web|title=ChatGPT|url=https://chatgpt.com/pricing/|publisher=chatgpt.com|access-date=2026-01-02}}</ref>
* $20/month tier: you stop feeling rationed. Reuters<ref>{{cite web|title=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-projected-least-220-million-people-will-pay-chatgpt-by-2030-information-2025-11-26/|publisher=reuters.com|access-date=2026-01-02}}</ref>
* $200/month tier: you live in “maximum” mode. Reuters<ref>{{cite web|title=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-projected-least-220-million-people-will-pay-chatgpt-by-2030-information-2025-11-26/|publisher=reuters.com|access-date=2026-01-02}}</ref>
* $20,000/year tier (this is the real jump): you’re basically renting a serious chunk of GPU time. At ~$2–$4 per H100 GPU-hour, one always-on H100 is roughly $17.5k–$35k/year. IntuitionLabs<ref>{{cite web|title=IntuitionLabs|url=https://intuitionlabs.ai/pdfs/h100-rental-prices-a-cloud-cost-comparison-nov-2025.pdf|publisher=intuitionlabs.ai|access-date=2026-01-02}}</ref>
* $200,000/year tier: you have a small cluster (think ~8 H100s worth of always-on capacity), i.e., a personal studio. IntuitionLabs<ref>{{cite web|title=IntuitionLabs|url=https://intuitionlabs.ai/pdfs/h100-rental-prices-a-cloud-cost-comparison-nov-2025.pdf|publisher=intuitionlabs.ai|access-date=2026-01-02}}</ref>

Outer rings: compute becomes a coveted good because it buys agency: faster models, more memory, richer worlds, longer context, better video, more autonomous tasks. People start talking about it like water pressure:
* “Run a cheap pass first.”
* “Don’t burn Pro minutes on a joke.”
* “Save the 4K tier for family movie night.”
* “I’m on a cluster plan—send me the big file.”

===== You call your airline. =====

A voice answers:

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Halfway through, Ava says:

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You hear a human voice for twelve seconds:

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Jordan disappears.

Ava returns:

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Outer rings: the customer service “person” becomes a human+AI composite. Humans become scarce supervisors; AIs become the front line that never forgets policy and never gets tired.

===== You’re on a first date. The conversation stalls. =====

They smile and say:

“Want to do a weird thing? I have a prompt I like.”

They open their phone:

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Twenty minutes later you’re laughing in a way that feels slightly unfair.

Outer rings: people start sharing prompts the way they share playlists, memes, and YouTube videos. “Here’s my breakup prompt.” “Here’s my dinner-party prompt.” “Here’s the one that makes my dad open up.” AI becomes part of how humans relate, not just what humans use.

===== Your insurance denies something you’re pretty sure is covered. =====

Your AI says:

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You pay $6.

Ten seconds later it says:
* “They used the wrong code.”
* “This sentence triggers auto-denial.”
* “Here are the three documents that force human review.”
* “Here is the appeal letter—short, deadly, policy-cited.”

Outer rings: “borrowing competence” won’t feel like mind-meld telepathy. It’ll feel like your assistant quietly calling a domain savant—legal, medical literature, immigration, contracts, home repair, investing—and coming back speaking that dialect.

===== Someone dies, and the family doesn’t just plan a funeral. =====

They plan settings.

A week later, the executor gets a dashboard:
* Museum (photos, voice notes, stories)
* Letters (scheduled messages they recorded)
* Counsel (answers only using their archive)
* Presence (light check-ins, reminders, birthdays)
* Off

The real conflict isn’t metaphysical.

It’s human:

Who gets access?
Who gets veto?
Who gets to turn them off?

Outer rings: death becomes “more complicated” because your identity is already partly digital (messages, voice, preferences, projects). Everyone eventually has to decide what survives: the archive, the agent, both, or neither.

===== Two coworkers are stuck in a looping disagreement. =====

Someone finally says:

“Okay. Time out. Let’s get an AI read.”

They paste the thread.

The AI returns:
* “You’re arguing about two different goals.”
* “Here are the three sentences where you talked past each other.”
* “Here is a compromise that preserves both constraints.”
* “Here are the unspoken assumptions on each side.”

Everyone goes quiet.

Not because it’s “right.”

Because it names the structure of the conflict.

Outer rings: this will start clunky (paste the thread) and become normal. It’ll be used in relationships, workplaces, even friend-group drama. Sometimes it will save the day. Sometimes it will feel invasive. Either way: spectacularly weird.

===== Emails start arriving with tags, like the old “Sent from my iPhone.” =====

But now it’s:
* Typed by human
* AI-drafted, human-edited
* Proxy reply (auto)
* Voice-to-AI-to-text

And people invent private variants:

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Outer rings: communication becomes credentialed: not “true vs fake,” but “what process produced this message?” The footer becomes part of trust.

===== A friend texts: =====

“Can I vent?”

You reply:

“Yep. Constraint: no fixing. Just empathy.”

Your friend:

“Perfect. Output: tell me I’m not crazy.”

This spreads because living with AI trains people to specify intent, tone, and success criteria.

Outer rings: language gets cleaner. Also slightly more clinical. Also, sometimes, wonderfully kinder.

===== You’re reading an article. =====

Next to a paragraph is a button:

Dispute this claim

You click it. Your AI drafts a structured packet:
* claim
* evidence
* confidence level
* suggested correction
* “what would change my mind”

It sends to the publisher’s article agent.

You get a reply:

“Logged. Under review.”

Sometimes it gets accepted and the article updates (with an audit trail).
Sometimes it gets rejected (with reasons).
Sometimes it triggers a fact-check duel between agents.

Outer rings: publishing starts to feel like Wikipedia with teeth—not fully open editing, but continuous, agent-mediated errata markets. This is how you get “truth as a living object” without letting random bots vandalize CNN.

===== A creator posts a prediction. =====

Under it are badges:
* Referenced (citations)
* Bonded (stake posted)

Bonded means: “If this claim is shown false by agreed-upon auditors (human+AI), money is paid out.”

Not for opinions—for falsifiable claims.

Outer rings: in a world of infinite content, staking becomes a new trust signal. Some writers will refuse on principle. Some will build brands on it. Readers will learn to ask: “Is this bonded, or just vibes?”

===== Not full VR utopia. =====

A simpler, nearer thing:

A persistent hangout space your friends actually use.

You send a link:

“Meet me in my room.”

It looks like a cozy little world shaped by your taste—bookshelf, window view, inside jokes as objects. Your AI host keeps things moving: music, prompts, games, memory.

Outer rings: the feed stops being the main social container. “Places” come back online. And yes—this will become magnetic for some people, in the way certain games became magnetic.

===== Handwriting won’t save you; AI will read it. =====

What becomes precious is unrecordable.

Dinner parties where phones go into lock pouches.
Bars that ban wearables.
Rooms designed to defeat passive listening.
Friend groups with hard norms: “What happens here is not data.”

Outer rings: this isn’t anti-tech. It’s the opposite: it’s a recognition that “being turned into training material” is a new kind of exposure—and people will pay for the luxury of moments that can’t be harvested.

If you want, I can now do the next step you’re aiming at—tightening each title to be even more object-like (more “QR codes” energy) and sharpening the inner vignette so it lands in one punchy scene each.