01/Time
The right to an unoptimised life
AI can help remove friction from almost everything. Some friction is where meaning begins.
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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.
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BeingWithAI / WEFIG. 000THE SPACE BETWEENORIGINAL STUDY
02/Public life
Who is safe when the system is secure?
Europe’s digital laws can keep services running and restrain harmful AI. Their real test begins with the person who still needs an answer after the audit has passed.
→03/Agency
Institutions that know when not to automate
Some decisions can be improved by AI and still require a person to make them. Institutional judgement begins by knowing when automation would change the good being pursued.
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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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