# 26. Cursus Honorum of the AI Future Part 1

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Podcast: [Great Houses](https://stenobird.com/podcast/great-houses-7769932)
Published: 2026-07-24T07:50:00+00:00
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Gregory Treat launches a new series arguing that AI is an "aristocratic" technology — one where cheap access doesn't produce equality, but instead rewards rare skill and intensive training, creating steep, durable hierarchies. He traces this pattern through history (knights, longbowmen) and more recently through CAD/3D printing, which democratized tools but ultimately consolidated value around certified experts and dominant platforms like Autodesk and Dassault.

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