Unknowing and Unknowable | Last Chance for Super Early Summit Tickets
LAST CHANCE FOR SUPER EARLY PRICING FOR THE ARTIFICIALITY SUMMIT 2026!
Unknowing and Unknowable | Last Chance for Super Early Summit Tickets
LAST CHANCE FOR SUPER EARLY PRICING FOR THE ARTIFICIALITY SUMMIT 2026!
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!
It's Time for Better GenAI Design | What We Know Before Saying It
In This Issue: * It's Time for Better GenAI Design. More below... * What We Know Before Saying It. Helen
Foundations
Neosemantic Design: Beyond Metaphor in Human-Machine Communication
The medium isn’t just the message anymore. The medium is now the meaning.
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.
Consciousness in a Synthetic World
We are not just spectators of the world. We are participants in its unfolding. Consciousness matters because it changes how possibility becomes reality, even if we don’t fully understand how.
The Artificiality: How Life and Intelligence Emerge from Information and Shape the Human Experience
Explore how synthetic systems merge with organic experience in The Artificiality. Follow the journey from information to consciousness, where AI evolves from passive tools to active participants, reshaping reality, redefining intelligence, and challenging the boundaries of human experience.
Ideas
On Unpredictability and the Work of Being Human
We act in the parts of reality AI can’t predict because they don’t yet exist.
Cognitive Sovereignty and the Cube
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, Not on Metrics
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.
Where Human+AI Minds Co-Evolve
Culture now shapes evolution through design. The intimacy surface is where life adapts next.
Research
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.
The Evolution of AI: From Models to Agents to Social Intelligence
AI is evolving from models to systems to agents—autonomous entities that act, adapt, and collaborate. As intelligence emerges from interactions, the future of AI depends on context, trust, and workflow integration. How we design social AI today will shape its role in amplifying human intelligence.
Lectures
Joscha Bach: The Cyberanimist Perspective on Consciousness
A lecture by Joscha Bach, delivered at the Artificiality Summit 2024 in Bend, Oregon
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
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."
John Pasmore: Inclusive AI
A conversation with John Pasmore, CEO of Latimer AI, on designing for inclusive AI.
Newsletter
Bubbles | On Unpredictability and the Work of being Human | Something Entertaining
In This Issue: * Bubbles. Are We? Aren't We? Read more below for my current take... * On Unpredictability and
Three Things from Us | Takeaways from Building a Manifesto for AI with AI | Something Entertaining
Three Things Thing One: Summit 2026 Tickets for the Artificiality Summit 2026 are now available! Same place (Bend, Oregon) and
Announcing the 2026 Summit | Cognitive Sovereignty | Tess Posner
We are thrilled to announce the Artificiality Summit 2026! AI is dissolving our inherited boundaries—between knowing and not-knowing, between
Artificiality Summit Reflections
The second Artificiality Summit is complete. Twice the time, twice the people, twice the brain expansion. We are incredibly grateful