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
The adjacent possible of human + AI is larger than either alone. The question now is what contexts we choose to enable.
A conversation with Eric Schwitzgebel, Professor of Philosophy at UC Riverside and author of "The Weirdness of the World."
A Reminder: Our current newsletter format includes a full essay as well as links to other essays, podcasts, etc. So
A review of Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination by Sir Geoff Mulgan.
A conversation with John Pasmore, CEO of Latimer AI, on designing for inclusive AI.
An essay about how your personal choices about AI use, multiplied across millions of people, become evolutionary forces.
Intimacy Extraction “We’ve witnessed how the attention economy drilled down into our focus, fracking it into tiny, tradable pieces.
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.
Driven by economic opportunity in the 1920s, American farmers expanded to the Great Plains. They replaced the diverse native prairie
Identity Coupling is a measurable, scalable force reshaping how we work, how we relate, and who we become.
We’ve entered the Bubble Prediction phase of AI. Some see valuations floating safely forward; others warn of collapse. The
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.
