looking towards 2026

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.

Fork. Construct. Ansible. Daemon. Symbiont. Cognitive... See more

The words that stick are borrowed, not invented. They come from fields where they already do work - software, biology, science fiction, political economy - and get reapplied to open up new ways of thinking. The best borrowed words don’t just describe; they import entire frameworks of understanding, entire sets of questions, entire ways of thinking... See more

In AI, we have something genuinely new - a category of technology that doesn’t fit our existing frames - and we’re trying to describe it with words inherited from the past. Every term we reach for either undersells the thing or oversells it.

“Assistant” makes it sound like a slightly upgraded Clippy. “Tool” makes it sound like a hammer.... See more

The sting of sorrow and loss will whiplash us back into ourselves. Irregardless of how fast and omnipotent AI systems become, we will continue to wither away. It is here that we might learn catch the deepest insight that will help us to be responsive in our tech-filled future.

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