Al Gore — On AI
This page lists every Orange Pill Wiki entry hyperlinked from Al Gore — On AI. 5 entries total. Each is a deeper-dive on a person, concept, work, event, or technology that the book treats as a stepping stone for thinking through the AI revolution. Click any card to open the entry; in each entry, words colored in orange link to other Orange Pill Wiki entries, while orange-underlined words with the Wikipedia mark link to Wikipedia.
Cognitive Abundance
The defining economic fact of the AI age — the massive expansion of analytical, creative, and productive cognitive capability — whose distribution is the defining political question.
Consciousness
The quality of subjective experience — being aware, being something it is like to be — and the single deepest unanswered question in both philosophy of mind and AI.
Information Ecosystem Crisis
The structural degradation of the shared evidentiary environment on which democratic deliberation depends — caused by the sequential failures of television, social media, and now generative AI.
The Attention Economy
The economic system in which human attention is harvested, packaged, and sold to advertisers — the infrastructure that drives the algorithmic pathologies Gore calls artificial insanity.
The Distribution Problem
The uncomfortable fact that AI's benefits and costs do not distribute evenly across the population of affected workers — a Smithian question about institutions, not a technical question about tools.