Every exponential in history has reorganized the system it entered—and the thing that becomes scarce is never what the curve predicted. This time, it's the capacity to know whether any of the abundant, coherent, AI-generated output is actually true.
Helen Edwards is a Co-Founder of Artificiality. She previously co-founded Intelligentsia.ai (acquired by Atlantic Media) and worked at Meridian Energy, Pacific Gas & Electric, Quartz, and Transpower.
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.
We tried using AI to shape a collective manifesto for the future of AI. My takeaway is that AI doesn’t necessarily make this process easier, although I did see moments that it did.
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, on how we understand intelligence and consciousness and infrastructure, more than on any metrics we're currently tracking.
