01/Creativity
Creativity after abundance
When making becomes easy, the difficult work moves to choosing, refusing, and standing behind what enters the world.
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AI, PEOPLE — AND THE LIFE BETWEEN
ISSN 3029–2026
The opening essay
AI is changing.
What about us?
The most important story is not what happens inside the machine. It is what happens between intelligent systems and the people living with them.
Read the essay →
BeingWithAI / WEFIG. 000THE SPACE BETWEENORIGINAL STUDY
02/Attention
The muscle of attention
AI can direct attention with extraordinary precision. The deeper question is whether we still practise choosing what deserves it.
→03/Voice
After the human voice
Synthetic speech will make voice abundant. Intimacy may depend increasingly on provenance rather than sound.
→EDITORIAL / 0016 MIN READ
A note from the editor
“Living with machines changes us long before machines become anything like us.”
AI is usually presented as a story about capability: what a machine can do now, what it may do next, and which human tasks it will transform.
This publication begins with the student who accepts a generated first sentence, and the institution that starts treating a prediction as a decision.
Our point of view →The inquiry
Questions worth
staying with.
These tensions return as artificial intelligence becomes part of ordinary life.
Visual essay / 01
The boundary is part of the relationship.
We tend to imagine the encounter with artificial intelligence as a meeting between two minds. But there is always something between us: an interface, a company, a dataset, a set of choices already made.
Organic form: lived experience
Geometric form: designed intelligence
Dark line: the system between
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