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OpenAI’s aiOS
A Reminder: Our current newsletter format includes a full essay as well as links to other essays, podcasts, etc. So
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Newsletter
OpenAI’s aiOS
A Reminder: Our current newsletter format includes a full essay as well as links to other essays, podcasts, etc. So
Books
Geoff Mulgan: Another World Is Possible
A review of Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination by Sir Geoff Mulgan.
Conversations
John Pasmore: Inclusive AI
A conversation with John Pasmore, CEO of Latimer AI, on designing for inclusive AI.
Ideas
Agency and AI Coevolution
An essay about how your personal choices about AI use, multiplied across millions of people, become evolutionary forces.
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Intimacy Extraction | The Roles We Give AI: Trust, Presence, and Culture in a Symbiotic Age
Intimacy Extraction “We’ve witnessed how the attention economy drilled down into our focus, fracking it into tiny, tradable pieces.
Research
The Roles We Give AI: Trust, Presence, and Culture in a Symbiotic Age
The AI Adaptation Cube maps, in three dimentions, the roles we put AI in based on the three traits: Cognitive Permeability, Symbolic Plasticity, and Identity Coupling.
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The Next Dust Bowl
Driven by economic opportunity in the 1920s, American farmers expanded to the Great Plains. They replaced the diverse native prairie
Ideas
The New Metric of the Intimacy Economy
Identity Coupling is a measurable, scalable force reshaping how we work, how we relate, and who we become.
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Bubbles and the Invention-Imagination Gap | How to Read AI Usage Studies | A Conversation with De Kai
We’ve entered the Bubble Prediction phase of AI. Some see valuations floating safely forward; others warn of collapse. The
Research
How to Read AI Usage Studies: A Guide to Three Different Lenses
AI usage is too complex for any single research approach to capture completely. We summarize and compare three recent studies: Anthropic's Economic Index Report, OpenAI's How People Use ChatGPT, and the Artificiality Institute's Chronicle project.
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Goodbye, Midjourney | Five Practices to Help Students Navigate AI Consciously
I've struggled with how to create images for the past couple of years. Without the budget for a