The Artificiality Imagining Summit 2024 gathered an (oversold!) group of creatives and innovators to imaging a hopeful future with AI. Tickets for our 2025 Summit will be on sale soon!
This week we dive into learning in the intimacy economy as well as the future of personhood with Jamie Boyle. Plus: read about Steve Sloman's upcoming presentation at the Imagining Summit and Helen's Book of the Week.
Explore the shift from the attention economy to the intimacy economy, where AI personalizes learning experiences based on deeper human connections and trust.
A research review of The Master and His Emissary:The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Ian McGilchrist.
What it’s about: Our left brain is a great servant (analytical, accurate) but a poor master. Our right brains are more reliable and insightful—the right brain gives us our ability to see context and make nuanced judgment. An account of how the structure of our brains and what we value about this shapes society. If we over-value left-brained thinking our world will be overly mechanistic.
Why it matters: A fascinating parallel to the way we think about AI (hint, it’s a left brain).
Highlight: A deep appreciation for what biological intelligence does.
Read it if: You like deep explanations and different perspectives on intuition versus analysis from the perspective of the brain. And insight into how a bias for analysis can shift entire societies.
The Artificiality Weekend Briefing: About AI, Not Written by AI
