Part 2 applies the framework to AI directly: Rung 1 brilliance, bounded Rung 2 access, how synthetic wisdom is produced and recognized, why the failure mode is always the same, and whether agentic AI changes the argument.

This is the audio edition of The Wisdom Gap: Why AI Today Is Structurally Capped Below Wisdom, presented in three parts. The full written whitepaper, with references and intellectual foundations, is at jamesmaconochie.com.

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