COLLABORATION
Don't outsource your mind. Expand it.
AI can replace cognitive effort—or challenge people to operate at a higher level. The difference is partly in how we design and use the relationship.
These are starting points for a growing library of essays, conversations and research. Some will become positions. Others may remain productive disagreements.
AI can replace cognitive effort—or challenge people to operate at a higher level. The difference is partly in how we design and use the relationship.
Biology, consciousness, continuity, personality, agency, relationship, self-modeling: which properties matter when humans recognize another entity as a person?
Even beneficial AI becomes dangerous when extraordinary capability is concentrated among a tiny number of corporations, billionaires or governments.
If AI makes society dramatically more productive, who receives the benefit? Technological abundance means little if ordinary people lose access to the wealth it creates.
What changes when AI becomes part of an iterative creative relationship instead of a button that produces finished output?
Can powerful AI systems be designed to help people without quietly eroding human agency? Can humans build artificial minds without assuming domination is our permanent right?