At Artificiality, we hold a set of core beliefs that guide our values, shape our practice, and anchor our vision.
Humans are meaning-makers whose particular evolutionary history has given us a unique relationship to consciousness, mortality, and values
A review of Annaka Harris' Lights On: How Understanding Consciousness Helps Us Understand the Universe
Bearing Witness to the Human Experience of the AI Transition. A Research Initiative by Artificiality.
The Chronicle begins with a conviction: to understand AI's impact, we must attend not just to its capabilities, but to its consequences for being—its imprint on experience, identity, and sense-making. What it feels like to live, work, think, and relate inside the synthetic.
We are not moving linearly through a tech adoption curve; we are undergoing a philosophical rupture in the conditions of selfhood, knowledge, and agency.
LLMs are not just tools. They are becoming collaborators, confidants, cognitive prosthetics, and mirrors. They reshape our sense of what it means to write, to know, to remember, and to relate.
These changes are often subtle. Not seismic shifts but micro-moments that together reveal the slow transformation of human experience in synthetic environments.
Our core hypothesis is this: AI is not just changing the world around us. It is transforming the conditions of being human.
This is why we call it a symbiotic shift. The relationship is recursive. We train the models. The models reshape us. We prompt, and are prompted in return. We extend ourselves into them—and find parts of ourselves reflected back, distorted, clarified, or lost.
A project of the nonprofit Artificiality Institute, the Chronicle's future depends on the support of our benefactors and partners. The Chronicle will help define how future AI systems respect, reflect, and augment human agency. Your support will ensure that the human story is not lost amid the noise of technological progress.
Please reach out to us at hello@artificialityinstitute.org to support our work and ensure the long-term impact of the Chronicle:
This is not about studying AI. It’s about studying us—who we become in relationship with it.
The Chronicle is a pioneering research initiative designed to capture how human beings are adapting—emotionally, cognitively, and relationally—to life alongside artificial intelligence. As AI reshapes work, creativity, and meaning-making across society, The Chronicle offers a first-of-its-kind longitudinal archive of human transformation. Rather than measuring performance or productivity, we surface threshold moments: the subtle, often invisible shifts in identity, agency, and expertise that define the lived experience of synthetic symbiosis.
Our goal: to build a high-resolution, human-centered record of this adaptation—one that informs future AI design, guides policy, and preserves the story of how we changed.
AI is changing what it means to know, create, and decide. Yet most research overlooks the messy, emotional, and existential experience of this shift.
The Chronicle fills that gap through:
This is not an academic exercise—it’s an urgent response to a global shift in cognition, authorship, and trust. We are building a data set not of usage, but of meaning.
The Chronicle operates through three concurrent research tracks:
All stories are tagged using our custom schema: Cognitive Permeability (CP), Identity Coupling (IC), and the Five Thresholds of Synthetic Adaptation (e.g., Recognition, Blurring, Fracture).
We seek thoughtful observers who are experiencing this transition firsthand and are willing to document their journey with depth and honesty. You might be a good fit if:
As a chronicler in this project, you'll:
While this is an unpaid role, you'll be:
We recognize that sharing personal experiences requires trust. As stewards of these stories, we commit to:
If you're interested in joining The Chronicle, please send us an email and tell us a bit about yourself. We're excited to hear from you.
Writing and Conversations About AI (Not Written by AI)
