​Date: February 11, 2025. Location: The Grand Line (Multiverse Coordinates: Paris, France - The Palais des Congrès). Status: Analyzing the "Brain" of the World.

Paris is usually about fashion and food—Sanji would lose his mind here—but this week, the City of Lights feels more like Egghead Island. The AI Action Summit just wrapped up, and the tension in the air is thicker than a storm cloud in the New World.

​World leaders and tech giants (the "CEOs" acting like the new Celestial Dragons) gathered to decide the rules for Artificial Intelligence. They’re calling it the "Treaty of the Mind." The goal? To put guardrails on a technology that is evolving faster than we can understand. As a navigator, I rely on my knowledge and my senses. But watching these debates, I realized we are facing a sea where the waves are made of data, and the ship is steering itself.

​In our adventures, we met Dr. Vegapunk, a genius whose dream was to connect the world's knowledge. But here in 2025, that dream has a shadow. The social and economic anxiety radiating from this summit is palpable for every Millennial and Gen-Z worker, especially concerning two fundamental issues.

​The first issue is the Labor Crisis, or Technological Unemployment. The biggest fear isn't "Robot Overlords"; it's Economic Obsolescence. The summit highlighted the bitter reality that while AI will create wealth, it will likely concentrate it at the top. This connects directly to Marx’s theory of alienation—workers are not just separated from the product of their labor, but from the act of thinking itself. If an algorithm writes the code, paints the art, or charts the course, what is left for the human spirit?

​This brings us to the second problem: Data Sovereignty. The debate in Paris wasn't just about safety; it was about Ownership. Who owns the data these models are trained on? It’s the classic "extractivism" of the colonial era, but instead of spices or gold, they are mining our creativity and our habits.

​A map drawn by a machine might get you to your destination, but it won't tell you why you wanted to go there in the first place. We have to make sure we don't trade our compass for a convenience.

​The outcome of this summit—a tentative agreement on "watermarking" AI content and banning autonomous lethal weapons—feels like putting a band-aid on a hull breach.

​For my generation, the challenge is clear: We have to learn to use these tools without becoming tools ourselves. We need to be the captains, not the cargo.

​Date: February 11, 2025. Location: The Grand Line (Multiverse Coordinates: Paris, France - The Palais des Congrès). Status: Analyzing the "Brain" of the World.

Paris is usually about fashion and food—Sanji would lose his mind here—but this week, the City of Lights feels more like Egghead Island. The AI Action Summit just wrapped up, and the tension in the air is thicker than a storm cloud in the New World.

​World leaders and tech giants (the "CEOs" acting like the new Celestial Dragons) gathered to decide the rules for Artificial Intelligence. They’re calling it the "Treaty of the Mind." The goal? To put guardrails on a technology that is evolving faster than we can understand. As a navigator, I rely on my knowledge and my senses. But watching these debates, I realized we are facing a sea where the waves are made of data, and the ship is steering itself.

​In our adventures, we met Dr. Vegapunk, a genius whose dream was to connect the world's knowledge. But here in 2025, that dream has a shadow. The social and economic anxiety radiating from this summit is palpable for every Millennial and Gen-Z worker, especially concerning two fundamental issues.

​The first issue is the Labor Crisis, or Technological Unemployment. The biggest fear isn't "Robot Overlords"; it's Economic Obsolescence. The summit highlighted the bitter reality that while AI will create wealth, it will likely concentrate it at the top. This connects directly to Marx’s theory of alienation—workers are not just separated from the product of their labor, but from the act of thinking itself. If an algorithm writes the code, paints the art, or charts the course, what is left for the human spirit?

​This brings us to the second problem: Data Sovereignty. The debate in Paris wasn't just about safety; it was about Ownership. Who owns the data these models are trained on? It’s the classic "extractivism" of the colonial era, but instead of spices or gold, they are mining our creativity and our habits.

​A map drawn by a machine might get you to your destination, but it won't tell you why you wanted to go there in the first place. We have to make sure we don't trade our compass for a convenience.

​The outcome of this summit—a tentative agreement on "watermarking" AI content and banning autonomous lethal weapons—feels like putting a band-aid on a hull breach.

​For my generation, the challenge is clear: We have to learn to use these tools without becoming tools ourselves. We need to be the captains, not the cargo.