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AI Summary
- OpenAI's investment in Merge Labs (brain-computer interfaces) marks a shift from text-based AI to direct access to human thoughts and intent—exponentially more powerful data source
- Data asymmetry risk: if AI can access 60,000 daily thoughts per person across 8 billion people, the upside (medical breakthroughs, cognitive assistance) must be weighed against privacy and control implications
- Future inflection: next AI frontier isn't better chatbots but higher-bandwidth access to human attention and cognition; this represents both tremendous opportunity and existential concern