Angus Fletcher says intuition, imagination, emotion, and commonsense are your edge over AI. Embedded intelligence answers that the wall is dug in the wrong place.
Chris Anderson said data would end theory — the numbers would speak for themselves. Eighteen years on, he was more right than his critics allowed and more wrong than his admirers understood.
Not the human out of the loop — the human representative in it: better sensed, better informed, and more legible. What does representation look like with an openly declared, inspectable AI assistant?
John Deely charted four ages of the sign. A fifth begins when the semiotic animal starts building intelligences that live by signs — and asks a question no earlier age could: what does the builder owe?
Four forces hijack the SPCA cycle by capturing a mind already formed. A fifth — ungoverned AI, reaching children whose cycles are still under construction — can keep a mind from fully forming at all.
