Weekly Nugget: Three hard truths about AI on ChatGPT’s 3rd birthday
Hi friend,
I was super happy to see this email from Will. What he lays out here validates much of the thinking and the long-term investment we have been making into COROS AI.
Will is among the few investors I trust on AI because he is not naïve. He is sober about what is real, what is hype, and where durable value actually comes from. When Will says it is time to sharpen how we look at AI, he is not reacting to headlines. He is describing a correction that has been coming for a while.
A few things from his note are especially important to hear clearly:
This is not an AI collapse, but a correction. Capital raced ahead of understanding. ROI lagged behind hype. Reality is now catching up.
LLMs are powerful tools, but bounded ones. They are not a straight line to AGI.
The companies most likely to win are Vertical AI, targeted and domain specific systems, and Human-centric AI, tools designed for human in the loop work that amplify capacity rather than replace people.
That framing aligns exactly with what we have been building.
Will has been advising us since the early days, when we first brought linguistic ontology into the startup and leadership world, long before AI became a catch all solution. Our Emerging Leaders Program produced outcomes he called unprecedented. Together with his late partner Dave Richards, may Allah bless his soul, he helped guide us toward the vertical market of coaching, habit formation, and confronting what many now call the great wave of resignation. (I miss Dave.)
Since then, our interventions, long before they were AI driven, have produced hundreds of millions of dollars in value for founders, operators, and their investors. That success is precisely why I shifted my focus from expanding consulting and leadership programs to building the AI itself.
We are not alone in this thinking.
In The Linguistic Revolution: AI, Humanity, and the Future of Work, I argue that the real leverage point is not intelligence, but language, the medium through which human beings coordinate action.
https://www.conceivian.com/blog/the-linguistic-revolution-ai-humanity-and-the-future-of-work
Former Microsoft AI researcher Bruno Alabiso strips away the myths in Artificial Intelligence, Deconstructed and Demythologized, reminding us what today’s AI is, and what it is not.
https://www.conceivian.com/blog/artificial-intelligence-deconstructed-and-demythologized
Philosopher B. Scot Rousse warns, in The Limits of Autonomy, that technology without care, commitment, and responsibility collapses into nihilism.
https://withoutwhy.substack.com/p/the-limits-of-autonomy-technology
And in Modern Education as Producing Fragility, I lay out how we systematically failed to build the human capacities needed to navigate uncertainty and conflict.
https://coros.ai/blog/modern-education-as-producing-fragilityand-most-leaders-dont-see-why
The convergence is clear. The greatest crisis of our time is not technological. It is relational. Broken trust. Stuck moods. Failed conversations. What shows up as disengagement, burnout, and stalled execution is, at root, coordination waste.
COROS AI is our response.
We are building a sovereign, human-centric, vertical AI designed to help people recover the conversational and relational skills modern life has eroded. We do not train on your data. We do not sell it. We do not manipulate behavior. The agenda is simple: to be of service to human beings dealing with real situations.
In pilots with over 500 participants, 82% reported a measurable improvement in their ability to navigate interpersonal breakdowns. Each model we ship outperforms the last.
If you haven’t yet, try COROS AI. It’s free. Bring it your hardest problem—and see what a true sovereign AI feels like.
Will’s full note follows below. He’s asking the right questions.
With care,
Saqib