AI — Futures Garden

AI and Knowledge Work: A Layered Analysis

Something strange is happening to knowledge workers who use AI daily. They ship more than ever and feel worse than...

“I shipped more code last quarter than any quarter in my career. I also felt more drained than any quarter...

Scroll through LinkedIn on any given morning and you will find people proudly sharing their AI workflows: inbox summaries generated...

Anticipatory governance: foresight, engagement and integration

This is a Primer primer on Anticipatory Governance.

Artificial general intelligence (AGI): definitions and benchmarks

This is a Primer primer on AGI.

Artificial Intelligence and future imaginaries

This article is part of my Master’s Thesis - Future Imaginaries. Previous Chapter: 4.1 Tools for the examination of future...

Butlerian Jihad: Dune, human judgment and calls to ban AI

This is a Primer primer on the Butlerian Jihad, on what Frank Herbert’s text says about it, and on the...

Center for Humane Technology: from social media to AI-risk advocacy

This is a Primer primer on the Center for Humane Technology and its co-founder Tristan Harris.

Comparison of national AI strategies

This article is part of my Master’s Thesis - Future Imaginaries. Previous Chapter: 4.2.1 AI and science fiction

Conclusion

This article is part of my Master’s Thesis - Future Imaginaries. Previous Chapter: 4.2.4 AI, future imaginaries, and futures studies...

Cultural Lag and Cultural Lead

I explored this concept in more detail in an issue of my newsletter Futures Lens: Cultural Lead: Why AI Is...

Californian Ideology vs. Texan Ideology

This is a Primer primer on the shift from the Californian Ideology to the Texan Ideology.

Longtermism: its argument, funding and critics

This is a Primer primer on the word “longtermism”: where it came from, what the argument behind it claims, who...

Master's Thesis – Future Imaginaries

I did my master’s in futures research from 2017 to 2020 at the FU Berlin. In my master’s thesis, submitted...

Meaningmaking

Every day, we make dozens of subjective value judgments without noticing. We decide which email deserves a reply first, whether...

Neo-Luddism: labor history and the politics of a label

This is a Primer primer on neo-Luddism and on the two-hundred-year career of the insult it is built from.

Outlook – Application of future imaginaries

This article is part of my Master’s Thesis - Future Imaginaries. Previous Chapter: 3.4.4 Effect of performativity on future imaginaries...

Permanent underclass: the AI narrative and its evidence gap

This is a Primer primer on the permanent underclass, the phrase that has organized how Silicon Valley talks about everyone...

Physical AI vs. Embodied AI

This is a Primer primer on the difference between physical AI and embodied AI.

Rationalists: from LessWrong to AI labs

This is a Primer primer on the Rationalist movement.

Reactance and future narratives

I applied this perspective to the backlash against AI in my newsletter Futures Lens: Forced Futures.

Scenario planning: seven phases from question to monitoring

This is a Primer primer on Scenario Planning.

The AI Race

I explored this framing in more detail in an issue of my newsletter Futures Lens: The Phantom AI Race

The Cognitive Costs of AI

In the space of two years, the discourse around AI and knowledge work has produced an entire family of concepts:...

The Difference between Present Futures and Future Presents

I applied this distinction to narratives about AI and work in my newsletter Futures Lens: AI and the Futures of...

Utopia: meanings, traditions and uses in futures studies

_This is a Primer primer on utopia. Related notes: Utopia as Method, Real Utopias_

Working with AI: From Adoption to Adaptation

A senior executive at a large company tells her teams to cut costs by 30% using AI. No guidance on...

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