"Look left. Look right. One of you won't be here when we graduate."

My university dean said this to a room full of freshmen. Everyone laughed nervously. I felt my stomach drop.

That sentence didn't just scare me; it trained me. It taught me that for me to win, you have to lose.

Walking through the Bay Area recently, I realized that same "zero-sum" panic is now driving the billion-dollar AI race.

The most advanced technology on earth is being built on the oldest fear in the book: the belief that there isn't enough to go around.

We have to graduate from that story.