Stay Human Chapter 2 | Steve Sloman
Stay Human: Chapter 2 Helen just published Chapter 2 of Stay Human: "The Right to a Future Tense."
Co-evolution with AI is already underway...
The Artificiality: AI, Culture, and Why the Future Will Be Co-Evolution
Co-evolution with AI is already underway. The question is whether we stay human inside it. This book shows why that question is harder than it sounds.
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Stay Human: Authoring Your Mind in the AI Age
A practical guide to remaining the author of your own mind. How to use AI without losing the capacities that make you human — your judgment, your creativity, your sense of self.
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Stay in the Loop on Staying Human
AI is changing how you think. Get the ideas and research to keep you the author of your own mind.
Ideas
The SaaS Apocalypse Is a Category Error
Why Wall Street's panic over AI agents misunderstands what makes enterprise software valuable—and what makes AI useful
AI is Already Changing Your Consciousness
AI changes what you can know, which changes what feels meaningful to you. If consciousness is the subjective experience of meaning-making in action, then AI absolutely changes consciousness.
A Note as 2025 Closes | Artificiality Book Awards 2025
Reflections on the Artificiality Institute in 2025—and on where we're headed in 2026.
Artificiality Book Awards 2025 plus a working library of past must-reads
Congratulations to the winners of the Artificiality Book Awards 2025!
Research
Why AI Requires Universities to Do What They Were Built For
The skills that can be taught quickly can be automated quickly. What's left is the slow work universities were built for: helping people become who they are.
The Roles We Give AI: Trust, Presence, and Culture in a Symbiotic Age
The AI Adaptation Cube maps, in three dimentions, the roles we put AI in based on the three traits: Cognitive Permeability, Symbolic Plasticity, and Identity Coupling.
How to Read AI Usage Studies: A Guide to Three Different Lenses
AI usage is too complex for any single research approach to capture completely. We summarize and compare three recent studies: Anthropic's Economic Index Report, OpenAI's How People Use ChatGPT, and the Artificiality Institute's Chronicle project.
How We Think and Live with AI: Early Patterns of Human Adaptation
People are forming psychological relationships with AI systems that feel unprecedented to them. The Chronicle maps the psychological changes happening as people incorporate AI into their thinking, creativity, and daily relationships.
Lectures
Helen & Dave Edwards: Becoming Synthetic
A lecture on Becoming Synthetic: What AI Is Doing To Us, Not Just For Us.
Steve Sloman: Information to Bits at the Artificiality Summit 2024
A lecture by Steve Sloman, professor at Brown University on Information to Bits at the Artificiality Summit 2024 in Bend, Oregon
Jamer Hunt on the Power of Scale
A lecture by Jamer Hunt, professor at the Parsons School of Design and author of Not to Scale, at the Artificiality Summit 2024.
Michael Levin on Diverse Intelligence & Synthbiosis
A lecture by Michael Levin, distinguished professor of biology at Tufts University and associate at Harvard's Wyss Institute
Conversations
Steven Sloman: The Cost of Conviction
A conversation with Steven Sloman about his new book, The Cost of Conviction
Ellie Pavlick: The AI Paradigm Shift
A conversation with Ellie Pavlick, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Brown University
Tess Posner: AI, Creativity, and Education
A conversation with musician and AI4ALL board member, Tess Posner.
Eric Schwitzgebel: The Weirdness of the World
A conversation with Eric Schwitzgebel, Professor of Philosophy at UC Riverside and author of "The Weirdness of the World."
Books
Artificiality Book Awards 2025 plus a working library of past must-reads
Congratulations to the winners of the Artificiality Book Awards 2025!
Geoff Mulgan: Another World Is Possible
A review of Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination by Sir Geoff Mulgan.
Christopher Summerfield: These Strange New Minds
A review of Christopher Summerfield's These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means
N. Katherine Hayles: Bacteria to AI
A review of N. Katherine Hayles' Bacteria to AI: Human Futures with our Nonhuman Symbionts