The reading room
Field notes from the human–AI frontier.
Essays, thought experiments, and practical questions. Start anywhere. Keep asking.
AI & identity
A personality is not a person.
An AI can sound warm, funny, and remarkably familiar. What does that tell us, and what does it leave unanswered?
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Power & accountability
Who checks the machine?
A better answer is not the same as an accountable system. Start with the people who can question, correct, and stop it.
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Fiction & futures
The future called. It brought a plot twist.
Science fiction is a terrific place to test an idea. It is a terrible place to outsource a forecast.
3 minute read
Build & experiment
Small team. Bigger toolbox.
AI can shorten the distance from idea to prototype. It cannot make judgment, testing, or ownership optional.
3 minute read