In This Issue: * Bubbles. Are We? Aren't We? Read more below for my current take... * On Unpredictability and
We act in the parts of reality AI can’t predict because they don’t yet exist.
Three Things Thing One: Summit 2026 Tickets for the Artificiality Summit 2026 are now available! Same place (Bend, Oregon) and
Artificiality Co-founders, Helen and Dave Edwards, gave a presentation at the House of Beautiful Business titled: Intimacy in the Age of AI.
We have attempted to summarize the outputs and approach of three studies—from Oxford University, McKinsey Global Institute, and Intelligentsia.ai (our own research firm acquired by Quartz in 2017).
The results suggest that the highest earning and most powerful feel far more optimistic about automation while those in lower-paying jobs feel much less in control.
As AI pervades more of our physical world experience, AI determines how we interact and learn, offering us less experience in the physical world. At some point, things need to happen in the physical world, with in-person interaction. These are the skills that an AI won’t be able to beat us at.
