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Allen Sterling

Allen Sterling is building Next for Humanity and writing How AI Saved Humanity, a book about turning abundant intelligence into broader human agency.

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How AI Saved Humanity

A working thesis for a book about the moment intelligence stopped being scarce—and the choices that made abundance human.

8 min readJuly 19, 2026