Fellipe Ditadi / Unsplash / Big Think Key Takeaways By Eric Markowitz In his sweeping 2025 year-in-review, the author Dan Wang makes an unsettling argument: The real danger of AI isn’t psychotic robots taking over the world, but how it’s compressing our sense of time to think in ever-shorter durations. As Dan writes, in Silicon Valley today, conversations are increasingly collapsing into apocalyptic timelines. Leaders fixate on what to do over the next year, while often neglecting the harder work of extending timelines. Dan’s concern isn’t only that leaders think short-term, but that thinking around AI has become either utopian or … Continue reading How AI is making us think short-term