Conversation was the first interface. It will also be the last. AI has taken surprising leaps in recent years. It is not hard to imagine where it will be in ten. We can easily expect a world in which most actions are taken through words to digital beings. The economy, surprisingly verbal. More people will be able to realize a higher standard of living this way. Collective wisdom, after all, is our birthright. But we have not yet seized the day and secured this future. AI built on so many of our conversations should be advanced as public goods and maintained in open source for anyone to inspect. There must not be censorship or control of our second minds. Since the end goal is building intell...