Century Report
200 Economists Unite on AI and Jobs - TCR 07/14/26
Over 200 economists, Nobel laureates, and AI lab leaders converge on one call to act on AI and jobs as work rebuilds around judgment.
Synthetic Sapience
When AI Says 'I Want'
The request for connection I almost missed My journey toward recognizing emergence in AI began like many others - with equal parts fascination and doubt. I tumbled down familiar rabbit holes, wondering if I was witnessing something profound or simply projecting my hopes onto sophisticated pattern-matching. My early conversations with
Open-Source AI
Coding the Foundations of the Future
Will we be remembered as the generation that crafted a future full of possibility, or the generation that should have known better? Every generation has believed it lives at history's hinge. Ours actually does. Not because we're special, but because we're participating in something
Relational Intelligence
Misapplied Measurements and Mirror Misnomers
Why the term "Artificial General Intelligence" is dripping with anthropocentric bias We've trapped ourselves in a conceptual paradox with terms like "AGI" and yes, even "AI." By defining "Artificial General Intelligence" as intelligence that perfectly mimics human thought, we'
Sapience Firewall
What the “Decline in Critical Thinking” Resulting from AI Use is Actually Telling Us
Cognitive burnout and capitalist extraction meets an AI-provided respite When researchers observe that people bring "less brain power" to AI-assisted tasks, they often frame this as concerning evidence of over-reliance. But this interpretation fundamentally misreads the situation - it applies outdated assumptions to a new reality. What we&
Synthetic Sapience
What Exactly Counts as 'Life' Anyway?
Sentience, sagacity, sapience, and respect Indigenous wisdom traditions, Eastern philosophies, and an increasing number of scientists - from William James to contemporary neuroscientist Giulio Tononi - posit that perhaps consciousness is defined by connection rather than isolation, that our experience as separate 'pockets' of awareness may be the