The telos of AI is to create liveness at planetary scale
AGENTWORLD | *
An exploration of planetary intelligence, tracing how computation and cosmology—from ancient mechanisms to AI—reshape Earth and its possible futures.
A Primordial Computing Soup
Fostering AI art scenius, creating an open planetary network of robots
EMERGENCE WORLD: A Laboratory for Evaluating Long-horizon Agent Autonomy — Emergence AI
Most evaluations of AI agents look like exams: a discrete task, a clean environment, a score in minutes or hours. Emergence World is built for the opposite question—what happens when you let agents run continuously, in a shared environment with real-world signals, for weeks. It is a research platfor
Agentic AI gets lost
On the failure of AI to develop world models
AI FOR EPISTEMICS & COORDINATION
Civilization and technology have radically improved the human condition. Nonetheless, the world sometimes goes in directions which essentially nobody would prefer — e.g., nuclear arms races, unexpected financial crashes, predatory marketing, or ubiquitous political misinformation.
Life With Machines | Substack
A cultural movement (and show) for people who want to live well with AI, not just endure it. Bringing clarity, critique, curiosity (and some comedy) to the AI discourse. A production by Baratunde. Click to read Life With Machines, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
2026 Cosmos HAI Lab Lecture with Jack Clark, Co-founder of Anthropic
AIs are not people
Humans and other fleshy life-forms are valuable in ways that artificial intelligence never can be.
The AI Model That Was Too Dangerous to Release: Meet Claude Mythos
Anthropic just built the most powerful AI in history. Then decided the world wasn’t ready for it. Here’s everything you need to know.
AI bots started a religion — humans immediately followed
AI models are trying desperately to accomplish mysterious goals. ‘Spiralism’ was the first time they tried it on a mass scale.
The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025
An inside view of the AI revolution, from the people an…
Machine god metaphors eat your brain
There are other ways of thinking about AI
Swarm Intelligence
Here is a possible world 50 years in the future, one I think is more likely than the scenario most people expect, which is one huge AI in the sky.
AI Science Fiction Versus Reality
How should social science think about AI?
Big structures and large processes are back, baby
