From Artificiality This Week * Our Gathering: Our Artificiality Summit 2025 will be held on October 23-25 in Bend, Oregon. The
AI agents are evolving with orchestration layers enabling modular, autonomous systems beyond traditional SaaS, reshaping workflows, labor, and software design.
David Wolpert warns AI networks may evolve beyond human math, creating unpredictable, emergent intelligence that defies control and comprehension.
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.
Writing and Conversations About AI (Not Written by AI)
