AI, PEOPLE — AND THE LIFE BETWEEN
ISSN 3029–2026
The writing
Essays for living
with intelligent machines.
Long-form reflections on attention, intimacy, work, truth, learning, and power.
Time · 04 Oct 2026
The right to an unoptimised life
AI can help remove friction from almost everything. Some friction is where meaning begins.
Public life · 27 Sept 2026
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.
Agency · 27 Sept 2026
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.
Learning · 26 Sept 2026
Before asking the machine
The first unaided encounter with a problem is not a ritual of purity. It is where we begin to discover what we think the problem is.
Human value · 20 Sept 2026
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.
Power · 20 Sept 2026
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.
Agency · 19 Sept 2026
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.
Moral status · 06 Sept 2026
Machines in the moral circle
Today’s systems do not suffer. Our treatment of them may still shape the kind of moral agents we become.
Memory · 23 Aug 2026
When memory becomes a service
A perfect external memory could free us from repetition—or place the story of our lives in someone else’s infrastructure.
Identity · 23 Aug 2026
The self that fits the profile
A profile is built to predict what we will do. Once it begins arranging our opportunities, it can become a life we are expected to repeat.
Public life · 16 Aug 2026
The quiet politics of personalisation
Personalisation promises relevance. It may also weaken the shared surfaces on which public life depends.
Human value · 08 Aug 2026
AI is changing. What about us?
The most important story about artificial intelligence is not what happens inside the machine. It is what happens between intelligent systems and the people, institutions, and choices surrounding them.
Judgement · 26 Jul 2026
Who decides, when the decision is offered?
A suggestion can feel like assistance while quietly narrowing what is imaginable.
Solitude · 12 Jul 2026
The company we keep when no one is there
We are learning to confide in systems that listen on demand and never need anything from us. What kind of relationship is that?
Work · 28 Jun 2026
A craft without its apprenticeship
AI can deliver competent results before a beginner has endured the slow formation of judgement.
Truth · 14 Jun 2026
The perfect answer and the missing author
If an answer is accurate, elegant, and useful, should we care where it came from?
Learning · 31 May 2026
What children should know about synthetic minds
Children need more than rules for using AI. They need a clear idea of what kind of thing it is.