Personal vs. Personalized AI

Everybody needs a personal AI policy. Just ask Hank Green.

How can we reap AI’s benefits without melting our brains in the process?

Robust AI Personalization Controls: The Human Context Protocol

Personalization underpins the modern digital economy. Today, personalization is largely implemented through provider-managed infrastructure that infers user pre

AIs are not people

Humans and other fleshy life-forms are valuable in ways that artificial intelligence never can be.

Something Big Is Happening

A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.

AI is An Ideology, Not A Technology

At its core, "artificial intelligence" is a perilous belief that fails to recognize the agency of humans.

Spaces — Your Personal AI OS

A desktop where AI agents are first-class citizens. Local-first. AI-native.

Mark Zuckerberg's AI manifesto is exactly why people don't like AI | TechCrunch

On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word manifesto about personal AI, largely about the possibilities for the "personal superintelligence" systems Meta AI is building.

The personal AI agent horror stories are rolling in

Early users say personal AI agents have not been forthright about account access, fabricated personal details, and raised cybersecurity concerns.

HUGE — AI Without Giving Up Your Privacy

We're building an Agentic AI Platform running on your Device that lives with YOU, isolated from the cloud, fundamentally reimagining the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence through ownership, privacy, and massive context. In an age of capture and control, HUGE sells independence and sovereignty.

Rethinking how technology uses our personal data

This essay explores visually how keeping data and AI on‑device could empower not only users, but also companies.

The Pro-Human AI Declaration

The Pro-Human AI Declaration

The Personalized Learning Revolution

The allure of AI lies predominantly in its unmatched potential for efficiency, convenience, and accuracy. However, this unprecedented convenience brings with it a hidden yet profound threat: the subtle erosion of human capacity for critical thinking through cognitive offloading.

What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean?

While it seems sensible that human-centred artificial intelligence (AI) means centring "human behaviour and experience," it cannot be any other way. AI, I argue, is usefully seen as a relationship...

The governance & behavioral challenges of generative artificial intelligence’s hypercustomization capabilities

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is changing human–machine interactions and the broader information ecosystem. Much as social media algorithms personalize online experiences, GenAI applications can align with user preferences to customize the way individuals interact with information. However, through training, fine-tuning, and prompting, GenAI applications can introduce a new level of customization: hypercustomization. By dynamically tailoring responses to an individual’s explicit and implicit preferences, hypercustomization can reinforce biases, false beliefs, or misconceptions. As a result, it can heighten significant societal challenges, such as the spread of misinformation and political and social polarization. In this article, we explore the risks associated with hypercustomization and the governance and behavioral challenges that might impede effective risk mitigation. These challenges include a lack of transparency in GenAI applications, opacity of the nature of their interactions with users, users’ overreliance on these systems, and the inefficacy of warning messages. We also provide recommendations for overcoming these challenges.