Everything AI did this year was crazy and none of it was weird
Anthropic doubled its research speed and spent six times as much doing it. What it didn’t buy is the thing Adam Mastroianni says we need more of.
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.
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
A lecture on Becoming Synthetic: What AI Is Doing To Us, Not Just For Us.
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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,
A conversation with musician and AI4ALL board member, Tess Posner.
The second Artificiality Summit is complete. Twice the time, twice the people, twice the brain expansion. We are incredibly grateful
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A conversation with Eric Schwitzgebel, Professor of Philosophy at UC Riverside and author of "The Weirdness of the World."
AI is changing how you think. Get the ideas and research to keep you the author of your own mind.