01/Human value
The futures we make easier
Technology does more than open possibilities. It makes some ways of living easier to enter, repeat, and defend—and leaves others requiring unusual effort.
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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/Power
When the manager is a model
A system can allocate shifts, set targets, and judge performance without ever meeting the people whose days it arranges.
→03/Agency
When the machine causes the harm
An AI can hurt someone without touching them. A changed record, a silenced warning, or a command issued at machine speed can carry harm from a screen into a body.
→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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