AI in 2025

We can keep reaching for metaphors of the past - tools, assistants, minds, intelligences - and keep getting the politics they encode.

Or we can choose terms that encode the politics we want: human agency, collective benefit, individual sovereignty, honest assessment of what this is and isn’t.

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Our current terminology clusters into two failing camps, and both serve interests that aren’t ours.

The diminishing frame - tool, assistant, software, program, bot - licenses cognitive outsourcing without accountability. It creates regulatory blindspots because you can’t harm a tool, you have no obligations to a tool. It permits surveillance under... See more

AD: One thing I clocked early on about all this AI stuff is the language around it. When we talk about Google, we say, “I Googled something.” I’m the one doing the Googling. But with ChatGPT, we say, “ChatGPT did it.” We gave it agency pretty quickly. I think that’s really hard to claw back. Most people don’t even realize they’re giving it soul.

I have a growing sense that there could be an important reason not to use these tools too much. The goal is to retain a kind of raison d’être in an economic sense, to have a competitive edge. There could be a real benefit to doubling down on the purely human instead of allowing oneself to be shaped by these tools.

We cannot become more disembodied in an age of technological expansion. In fact, we must become more embodied. Here, we leverage all the modalities of movement that allow us to connect with the core of our being. We also harness our social and emotional wellbeing by becoming more astute at processing how we feel and how others feel.

I conceive of supraintelligence as a multidimensional form of human intelligence—emergent, embodied, and ethical—that grows in response and in relationship with technological complexity.

It enables us to center and work with the various levels of our being, while navigating the transformations brought on by AI and other exponential technologies.

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“Answer engines” like ChatGPT, Perplexity and increasingly Google lure readers into comfy, closed ecosystems where they rarely click to news sites for full articles. The big social platforms, including Meta and X, systematically demote links to news publishers. Users are by and large okay with that change, because they’ve soured on news, as well:... See more