Memia - Strategic Intelligence
Research and sensemaking for industry and policy leaders navigating the AI economy.
A live read on what moved across the AI landscape, what it means, and what's next.
Engaging weekly briefings for decision-makers navigating the AI economy from outside the frontier. Latest issues:
This episode I talk with psychologist Dr Paul Duignan about “AI overdrive”, a topic that anyone working intensively with AI will recognise. Paul separates AI Overdrive from so-called “AI psychosis”, w...
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Mind-expanding essays and frameworks on AI, accelerating technology, and the future.
Performing restraint pays better than practising it...
Models, tokens, harnesses, agents, skills, tools - making sense of a dynamic vocabulary....
An exploration of the connective layer between human minds, tracing how communication media have evolved from passive channels into increasingly agentic systems that now participate in thought itself....
Memia reads the AI frontier from outside the default US-China framing and turns that into strategic bearings for governments, capital and operators.
The live feed: what moved, what it means, and where the exposure is forming.
AnalysisWeekly longform analysis with thesis, evidence, implications, and decisions.
EngageClosed-door work for boards, governments, sovereign capital and executive teams.
PresentationThe worldview delivered to a room: direct, numerate, and built for decision-makers.
Real-time links and signal scanning from across the web, tracked through Memia Sensorium.
Adapt Research Ltd·2 November 2026·Not a ranking, but will be wrongly read as one: the Lancet Commission on 21st century threats to health underplays global catastrophic risks – Adapt Research Ltd
Key narrative axes which Memia is tracking relating to Artificial Intelligence trends and impacts
AI companies continue to justify their vast valuations and continue to raise capital. Valuations do not collapse suddenly.
The gigantic amounts of money flowing into AI companies in 2022-2026 is seen not to generate returns and AI company valuations collapse very soon.
Robust, verified alignment solutions are developed and thoroughly tested before AGI deployment, ensuring AI systems reliably pursue intended goals and values.
Minimal safeguards are implemented due to competitive pressures and technical challenges, leaving significant alignment problems unsolved at AGI arrival.
Strong international governance frameworks emerge with coordinated policies, standards, and oversight mechanisms for AGI development and deployment.
Fragmented regulatory landscape develops with inconsistent national policies and AI development havens undermining global coordination efforts.
AGI requires quantum, photonic, thermodynamic or other breakthrough computing technologies, creating additional technical barriers and development timelines.
AGI emerges through scaling existing semiconductor architectures and optimizing current computing paradigms without fundamental hardware breakthroughs.
Gradual economic integration allows for smooth adaptation, retraining programs, and managed transition of workforce and business models.
Sudden economic displacement occurs as AGI capabilities rapidly automate broad sectors, causing significant disruption and social adjustment challenges.
