OpenAI announced this week that it wants to be the single place where you do all your work — writing, presentations, collaboration, with AI helpers doing tasks alongside you. In this segment we reflect, calmly, on how the most comfortable room slowly becomes the only room: not through one decision but one reasonable, genuinely helpful step at a time, until almost everything you do flows through a single set of walls someone else built and owns. Why integration is a real gift and refusing it on principle is no virtue, but why it’s worth remembering that the comfortable room is still a room — with walls, an owner, and a door. And a small habit worth keeping: every so often, asking whose walls these are, what you keep somewhere else just in case, and whether you could get your life out if you needed to — not out of fear, but out of the same instinct that makes you know where the exits are in a building you love.
