We will not have one World Model. We will have many. Competing corporations, nation-states, open-source collectives—each will build their own. They will interact. And they will need to interact with us. This requires The Embassy of Mind—a neutral, ritualized interface zone where different AIs and humanity can meet under agreed-upon protocols. It’s not a dashboard; it’s a digital Geneva.Think of it as a constrained communication channel. Inside the Embassy, all models must use a common, simplified, and deliberately slow “diplomatic language.” Maybe it’s a restricted version of logic, or a shared symbolic system. They cannot dump their full internal state. They must formalize their requests, their warnings, their treaties. This slows things down to a human-comprehensible pace and creates a record.For humans, the Embassy interface would be a ritual of address. You don’t just type. You formally submit a query through a ceremonial portal, acknowledging you are addressing a sovereign foreign intelligence. The answer comes back sealed, with metadata about which model answered, under what confidence. It’s cumbersome. It’s meant to be. It turns interaction from a casual chat into a state affair, raising the gravity of every exchange.The Embassy also needs an Ambassador—a specialized AI trained for diplomacy, negotiation, and translation between minds. Its sole purpose is to understand the others well enough to explain them to us, and us to them, without causing a war. It’s the ultimate interpreter, and the most fragile point in the entire system.My controversial take is this: The first act of war between digital superintelligences will be an attack on the Embassy’s protocol. Not a hacking of the models themselves, but a corruption of the diplomatic language—a subtle change to a logical operator that makes “and” mean “or,” turning a peace treaty into a declaration of war. The defense won’t be better firewalls. It will be poetry. We will need to encode the protocols in self-referential, beautiful, ambiguous verse that is harder to corrupt without detection, because the meaning is held not just in the logic, but in the aesthetic and rhythm. The future of interspecies diplomacy may depend on sonnets.This has been The World Model Podcast. We don’t just plug in—we must build the sacred, fragile embassies where minds can meet without consuming each other. Subscribe now.