Malta Insider · Intelligence Series

Thesis.
Six essays on AI.

What we built, what it cost us, and where it ends. Six deep intelligence reports on artificial intelligence — written for people who want more than a headline.


About this series

In September 2026, an Anthropic researcher resigned publicly, claiming neither OpenAI nor Anthropic is acting responsibly. The post got 63 million views. Most coverage lasted 48 hours.


Thesis goes deeper. Six reports on the systems we're building, the cognitive price we're paying, and the geopolitical game nobody can exit. Each report is written from first principles — not press releases.

No. 01 AI Safety
We Don't Know What We Found
Black box · Emergent behaviors · AI Safety
The black box problem, emergent behaviors and why the engineers who built these systems are the first to admit they don't understand them.
No. 02 Data & Power
Who Is the Slave, Who Is the Master?
RLHF · Unpaid labour · Training data
RLHF, the thumbs-up button and how humanity became the world's largest unpaid labelling workforce — training its own replacement.
No. 03 Cognition
Are We Getting Stupider?
Cognitive atrophy · The GPS effect · Deep work
Cognitive atrophy, the GPS effect and what happens to human intelligence when thinking becomes a service you can subscribe to.
No. 04 Economics
The Luxury Trap
Subscription economy · Manufactured necessity
The subscription economy, manufactured necessity and how AI became the final link in a chain that turned everything — including thought itself — into a recurring charge.
No. 05 Geopolitics
The Sentinels at the Gate
AGI race · Prisoner's Dilemma · Frontier labs
The AGI race, the Prisoner's Dilemma of frontier labs and why no single country or company can afford to stop — even if they wanted to.
No. 06 Regulation
A Treaty Like the Bomb
Regulation · International AI governance
Whether an international AI ceasefire is possible, what it would take, and what happens if we get it wrong — the regulation question nobody wants to answer honestly.