Tenzing Sonam

Tibetan filmmaker, writer

[Tenzing Sonam @zing10]

Richard Gere in Conversation: Tibet and the Heart of Compassion—with Richard Gere in person https://t.co/cOfPM9vVGI

[Tenzing Sonam @zing10]

@DalrympleWill Sad news. Listened to him many times at a friend’s home in Delhi. A mesmerising performer.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Israeli minister Ben-Gvir celebrates the execution chamber for Palestinians.

Is there any limit for Israel's depravity?

Any at all?

[Muhammad Ayan @socialwithaayan]

MIT's Nobel Prize-winning economist just published a model with one of the most alarming conclusions in the AI literature so far.

If AI becomes accurate enough, it can destroy human civilization's ability to generate new knowledge entirely.

Not gradually degrade it. Collapse it.

The paper is called AI, Human Cognition and Knowledge Collapse.

Authors: Daron Acemoglu, Dingwen Kong, and Asuman Ozdaglar. MIT. Published February 20, 2026.

Acemoglu won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2024. He is not a doomer blogger. He is the most cited economist of his generation, and his models tend to be taken seriously by the people who set policy.

Here is the argument in plain terms.

Human knowledge is not just a collection of facts stored in individuals. It is a living system that requires continuous reproduction. People learn things. They apply them. They teach others. They build on prior work to generate new work. The entire engine of science, medicine, technology, and innovation runs on this cycle of active human cognition.

What happens when AI provides personalized, accurate answers to every question people would otherwise have to learn themselves?

Individually, each person is better off. They get correct answers faster. They make fewer errors. Their immediate outcomes improve.

But they stop doing the cognitive work that sustains the collective knowledge base.

Acemoglu's model shows this produces a non-monotone welfare curve.

Modest AI accuracy: net positive. AI helps at the margin, humans still do enough learning to sustain collective knowledge, everyone gains.

High AI accuracy: net catastrophic. AI is accurate enough that learning yourself feels unnecessary. Human learning effort collapses. The knowledge base that AI was trained on is no longer being refreshed or extended. Innovation stalls. Then stops.

The model proves the existence of two stable steady states.

A high-knowledge steady state where human learning and AI assistance coexist productively.

A knowledge-collapse steady state where collective human knowledge has effectively vanished, individuals still receive good personalized AI recommendations, but the shared intellectual infrastructure that enables new discoveries is gone.

And the transition between them is not gradual.

It is a threshold effect. Below a certain level of AI accuracy, society stays in the high-knowledge equilibrium. Above that threshold, the system tips. And once it tips, the collapse is self-reinforcing.

Because the people who would have learned the things that would have pushed the frontier forward never learned them. And the AI cannot push the frontier on its own. It can only recombine what humans already knew when it was trained.

The dark irony at the center of the model:

The AI does not fail. It keeps giving accurate, personalized, useful answers right through the collapse.

From the individual's perspective, nothing looks wrong. You ask a question, you get a correct answer.

But the collective capacity to ask questions nobody has asked before, to build the frameworks that generate new knowledge rather than retrieve existing knowledge, that capacity is quietly disappearing.

Acemoglu has been the most prominent mainstream economist skeptical of transformative AI productivity claims. His prior work found that AI's actual measured productivity gains were much smaller than the technology industry projected.

This paper is a different kind of warning. Not that AI will fail to deliver promised gains.

But that if it succeeds too completely, it will undermine the human cognitive infrastructure that makes long-run progress possible at all.

The welfare effect is non-monotone.

That is the sentence worth sitting with.

Helpful until it is not. Beneficial until it crosses a threshold. And past that threshold, the same accuracy that made it so useful is precisely what makes it devastating.

Every student who uses AI instead of working through a problem is a data point.
Every researcher who uses AI instead of developing intuition is a data point.
Every generation that grows up with accurate AI answers and no incentive to develop deep domain knowledge is a data point.

Individually rational. Collectively catastrophic.

Acemoglu proved this is not just a cultural concern or a vague anxiety about screen time.

It is a mathematically coherent equilibrium that a sufficiently accurate AI system will push society toward.

And there is no visible warning sign before the threshold is crossed.

[Tenzing Sonam @zing10]

https://t.co/bScCMDjjNp

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

They raped a man.
They gang-raped him.
They raped him so brutally that he had to be hospitalized.
Doctors documented the injuries.
The video of the assault was leaked.

Now the rapists are free.

This is not just unlawful and immoral. It is sick!

#ThisIsIsrael

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The death toll in Gaza in the first 15 months of Israel’s attack was 53% higher than official figures according to @LancetGH. So the real figures as of now could be over 110,000 deaths, or 124,000 including indirect deaths, 5.4% of Gaza population. And Israel isn’t stopping.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

"I'm an anti-Zionist, because I'm the daughter of holocaust survivors. The Shoah is baked into my DNA, and that's why I call for Palestinian liberation. It's not anti-semitic to be anti-Zionist. It's not anti-semitic to call what's happening in Gaza genocide."

Elsa Auerbach - Jewish-American Author

[Tenzing Sonam @zing10]

@TheCinesthetic Sirat.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Amsterdam: At least 250,000 people attended massive pro-Palestine protest today.

[Tenzing Sonam @zing10]

Spreading fake news about your own product. Sad.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Tesla Cybertruck beats a 911 while towing a 911, which mean it can carry a 911 faster down a 1/4 mile than the Porsche can travel by itself …

[John Cusack @johncusack]

Solidarity with this courageous human being

[Tenzing Sonam @zing10]

Tears come to my eyes and I feel such helplessness to witness what these kids are going through. @aljazeeraenglish https://t.co/8xDBaIB9T9

[Tenzing Sonam @zing10]

@RnaudBertrand @KitKlarenberg @bronwenmaddox When you talk about China, you cannot overlook the fact that it, too, is a colonial power that is currently engaged in culturally genocidal policies in Tibet and East Turkestan. Perhaps, supporting the Palestinian cause too loudly draws uncomfortable parallels with its record.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

The British establishment have all ready covered this new Banksy up.

Can we get it Retweeted 10,000 times to show that they can never cover up their complicity in war crimes??

Protect the right to protest! RT!

[Tenzing Sonam @zing10]

Israelis are saying what Western politicians and the media seem petrified to admit to. https://t.co/bZLuYpzhg0

[Dr Nilima Srivastava @gypsy_nilima]

When you’re done reading

Do listen to

Israeli journalist Gideon Levy educating the world on the sickness that is the Israeli people!

Tongue firmly in cheek

“Second value, we the victims, not the only victims but the biggest victim on earth”

First of course

“We are the chosen people”

[Humza Yousaf @HumzaYousaf]

"It is so painful what we see in Gaza, it hurts all my body...it is not about ideology but the love of life...It is about refusing to be silent or still when it matters the most"

Thank you Pep for standing up for the innocent people of Gaza.

Video credit @BrickstoRiches_

[Naila Ayad🇵🇸 @Naila_Ayad]

If you are proud of Greta Thunberg for what she does for Palestine, LIKE AND RETWEET.

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

🚨Testimony: British surgeon Dr. Victoria Rose described the catastrophic scene at Nasser Medical Complex earlier today after, Israeli forces opened fire on civilians trying to get aid from one of the Rafah distribution points.

“It’s absolute carnage here,” she said, as the emergency bays overflowed with gunshot victims. Injuries are estimated to range between 100 and 200, mostly from live fire.

With a surge in critical cases, the hospital is overwhelmed and running under severe shortages of medicines, surgical supplies, and blood units.