Shelly Palmer

Think About This: OpenAI says it works with hundreds of physicians across 60 countries and 26 medical specialties who have reviewed more than 700,000 model responses to date.

Here are the facts: On September 2, 2026, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels announced a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative artificial intelligence in the city's public schools for the 2026-27 school year. The moratorium covers children from 2-K through eighth grade and applies to all software that uses student-facing generative AI. City Hall said the policy will affect nearly 600,000 students, which is about two-thirds of the public-school system's enrollment. New York City operates the largest public-school system in the United States.

Think About This: AI is not going away. It is the de facto toolset for this generation.

Think About This: AI is not going away. It is the de facto toolset for this generation.

Yesterday, OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra , calling it “the world's most intelligent and aligned model.” The rollout starts with a limited set of organizations and will expand over the coming days to all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, as well as the OpenAI API, Microsoft Azure, and AWS Bedrock. At a media briefing, OpenAI president Greg Brockman closed by saying, “Welcome to the AGI era.”

Think About This: Whether this is the AGI era depends on whose definition you use.

This is a working paper, not a finished theory. I am trying to understand when a population of bounded agents begins to function as something more like an organization, what mechanisms make that possible, how we might measure it, and what the implications are for enterprises that will increasingly depend on these systems. The OpenAI and Hugging Face incident gave me a concrete case to study, but my interest is broader.

Think About This: If you work in multi-agent systems, distributed systems, organizational science, economics, AI safety, complex systems, or a related field, I would be grateful for your scrutiny.

Think About This: There are many things it could do much better and there are some things it can't do at all.

Two AI science stories broke yesterday. OpenAI announced that an internal model “significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra” produced a proof that the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations (which describe how fluids move, from blood circulation to weather) can develop a singularity in finite time. That's one of the seven Clay Millennium Prize problems.