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IDEAS
Ideas
Agency and AI Coevolution
An essay about how your personal choices about AI use, multiplied across millions of people, become evolutionary forces.
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.
Ideas
Five Practices to Help Students Navigate AI Consciously
Instead of policing AI use or pretending it doesn’t exist, we can help students build awareness of how it’s shaping their learning.
Ideas
The One Course Every University Should Be Teaching
AI is reshaping how students think and learn. The one course every university should teach? Training in cognitive sovereignty—how to collaborate with AI without losing what makes thinking human.
RESEARCH
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.
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.
Research
How We Think and Live with AI: Early Patterns of Human Adaptation
People are forming psychological relationships with AI systems that feel unprecedented to them. The Chronicle maps the psychological changes happening as people incorporate AI into their thinking, creativity, and daily relationships.
Research
The Evolution of AI: From Models to Agents to Social Intelligence
AI is evolving from models to systems to agents—autonomous entities that act, adapt, and collaborate. As intelligence emerges from interactions, the future of AI depends on context, trust, and workflow integration. How we design social AI today will shape its role in amplifying human intelligence.
LECTURES
Lectures
Joscha Bach: The Cyberanimist Perspective on Consciousness
A lecture by Joscha Bach, delivered at the Artificiality Summit 2024 in Bend, Oregon
Lectures
Steve Sloman: Information to Bits at the Artificiality Summit 2024
A lecture by Steve Sloman, professor at Brown University on Information to Bits at the Artificiality Summit 2024 in Bend, Oregon
Lectures
Jamer Hunt on the Power of Scale
A lecture by Jamer Hunt, professor at the Parsons School of Design and author of Not to Scale, at the Artificiality Summit 2024.
Lectures
Michael Levin on Diverse Intelligence & Synthbiosis
A lecture by Michael Levin, distinguished professor of biology at Tufts University and associate at Harvard's Wyss Institute
CONVERSATIONS
Conversations
John Pasmore: Inclusive AI
A conversation with John Pasmore, CEO of Latimer AI, on designing for inclusive AI.
Conversations
Adam Cutler: AI, Design, and the Human Future
A conversation with Adam Cutler, Distinguished Designer, IBM.
Conversations
Christine Rosen: The Extinction of Experience
A conversation with Christine Rosen, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of "The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World."
BOOKS
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.
Books
Christopher Summerfield: These Strange New Minds
A review of Christopher Summerfield's These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means
Books
N. Katherine Hayles: Bacteria to AI
A review of N. Katherine Hayles' Bacteria to AI: Human Futures with our Nonhuman Symbionts
Books
Annaka Harris: Lights On
A review of Annaka Harris' Lights On: How Understanding Consciousness Helps Us Understand the Universe