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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.
We are not here to predict the future. We are here to become it.
AI is dissolving our inherited boundaries—between knowing and not-knowing, between thinking and acting, between who we have been and who we might still become.
The world is changing faster than our mental models can keep up.
Our instinct is to search for answers.
This year, we choose to embrace something else.
Don't miss an experience that our community has described as:
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For centuries, humans believed we were the only species with reason, agency, self-improvement.
Then came AI.
We are no longer the only system that learns, adapts, or acts with agency. And when the boundary of intelligence moves, the boundary of humanity moves with it.
We are entering a period of unknowing—not ignorance, but a necessary release of inherited assumptions. We don’t yet know what AI will become, and we don’t yet know what we will become in relationship to it.
Unknowing is the space between—the place where neither side is fixed, and something new can emerge.
Something is happening to our thinking, our being, our becoming. If AI changes how we think, and how we think shapes who we become, then how might AI change what it means to be human?
Unknowing is how we stay conscious and make space for emergence.
Becoming is what happens when we do.
This is the space we’re entering together.
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Photos by Rob Kerr, taken at the Artificiality Summit
