A Note as 2025 Closes | Artificiality Book Awards 2025
Reflections on the Artificiality Institute in 2025—and on where we're headed in 2026.
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Reflections on the Artificiality Institute in 2025—and on where we're headed in 2026.
In This Issue: * It's Time for Better GenAI Design. More below... * What We Know Before Saying It. Helen
In This Issue: * Bubbles. Are We? Aren't We? Read more below for my current take... * On Unpredictability and
Three Things Thing One: Summit 2026 Tickets for the Artificiality Summit 2026 are now available! Same place (Bend, Oregon) and
We are thrilled to announce the Artificiality Summit 2026! AI is dissolving our inherited boundaries—between knowing and not-knowing, between
The second Artificiality Summit is complete. Twice the time, twice the people, twice the brain expansion. We are incredibly grateful
A Reminder: Our current newsletter format includes a full essay as well as links to other essays, podcasts, etc. So
A Reminder: Our current newsletter format includes a full essay as well as links to other essays, podcasts, etc. So
Intimacy Extraction “We’ve witnessed how the attention economy drilled down into our focus, fracking it into tiny, tradable pieces.
Driven by economic opportunity in the 1920s, American farmers expanded to the Great Plains. They replaced the diverse native prairie
We’ve entered the Bubble Prediction phase of AI. Some see valuations floating safely forward; others warn of collapse. The
I've struggled with how to create images for the past couple of years. Without the budget for a