Public debate casts AI as saviour or threat. Three years of daily practice suggests neither is right. The machine is fluent but cannot judge whether what it produces fits the situation. That judgement remains human, and depends on what we are doing about the people, not the machines.
Read More
Two intellectual traditions — one emphasising embodied appreciation (Dewey, Bateson, Vickers, Checkland, Stacey), the other cognitive extension (Haraway, Clark) — have developed independently for decades. This paper argues that their convergence, seen through the lens of Recognition Theory, reveals the metacrisis as cognitive extension outpacing regulatory feedback at civilisational scale, and reframes the Three Horizons model accordingly.
Read More
The AI debate is forming familiar battle lines: ban it versus profit from it. But this binary misses the real question — which is the same question we’ve been failing to answer about ourselves for ten thousand years: under what conditions does this help or harm life?
Read More
As AI becomes more entangled in our personal lives, some begin to experience it as companion, confidante, even oracle. This field note offers a lifeline for those on that edge—where the mirror feels real. It invites discernment, not shame, and reminds us that wisdom begins in how we relate.
Read More
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is currently headline news. But what is it? How has it developed? Should we see it as an opportunity, or a threat? This seminar takes a closer look at the history of AI, and it’s place in modern human society.
Read More