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
We are dedicated to unraveling the profound impact of AI on our society, communities, workplaces, and personal lives. To truly grasp this transformation, our approach is rooted in engaging with core concepts such as critical thinking, logical analysis, and the scrutiny of underlying assumptions, principles that are essential in the realm of philosophical inquiry.
We act in the parts of reality AI can’t predict because they don’t yet exist.
We tried using AI to shape a collective manifesto for the future of AI. My takeaway is that AI doesn’t necessarily make this process easier, although I did see moments that it did.
Cognitive sovereignty is conscious, skillful, reversible navigation through the eight roles, including the possibility of assigning AI a role that fundamentally changes who you are.
The biggest impact of AI will be on our minds, on how we understand intelligence and consciousness and infrastructure, more than on any metrics we're currently tracking.
Culture now shapes evolution through design. The intimacy surface is where life adapts next.
Exploring how mind emerges from coherence and how AI might extend where a mind can be.
The adjacent possible of human + AI is larger than either alone. The question now is what contexts we choose to enable.
An essay about how your personal choices about AI use, multiplied across millions of people, become evolutionary forces.
Identity Coupling is a measurable, scalable force reshaping how we work, how we relate, and who we become.
Instead of policing AI use or pretending it doesn’t exist, we can help students build awareness of how it’s shaping their learning.
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.
AI excels at generating opportunities but struggles with deciding what matters. New research reveals why human judgment—not technical skill—becomes the scarce premium as AI reshapes expertise and organizational decision-making.
