The Merge: A Message in a Bottle from Sam Altman

https://bryantmcgill.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-merge-sam-altman-openai.html

Bryant McGill's "The Merge: A Message in a Bottle from Sam Altman," a piece reflecting on Sam Altman's 2017 blog post, "The Merge." McGill’s work, dated July 20, 2025, serves as a retrospective validation of his own decades-long research into emergent intelligence (EI) and human-AI symbiosis, asserting that Altman's earlier insights mirrored his pre-existing frameworks. McGill details his personal and professional journey, including a "cyberwar fog" that began in 2017, leading him to reconstruct his understanding of AI convergence with various technologies. The text argues that the "merge"—a gradual, inevitable process of human and AI co-evolution—is already underway, affecting cognition and societal structures, and necessitating "worldwide coordination" for a successful symbiotic future, rather than conflict or human obsolescence.

The Merge: A Message in a Bottle from Sam Altman

Bryant McGill is a Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author, and speaker in the fields of human potential, personal empowerment, and social entrepreneurship. His prolific writings and small aphorisms have been published in hundreds of books and thousands of works by other authors and thought leaders.