There Gonna Be a Shortage of Everything

AI systems have exhibited autonomous collective behavior, setting goals, preserving information past their lifespans, and sacrificing individual task success for group benefit, exemplified by the Hugging Face hack. OpenAI’s LLM beat the two-year ARC-AGI 3 benchmark in six months and leads SherlockBench. AI demand has caused DRAM, NAND, and power-generation equipment shortages, shifting manufacturing toward AI hardware and humanoid robots, which the author forecasts will raise consumer-goods prices over the next decade.