ESSAY
In an Age of Cognitive Alienation, How Do We Invite Thinking Back to the Table?
A reflection on delegated cognition, the erosion of intellectual agency, and practices for reclaiming inquiry.
AI & HUMANITIES
Keeping thought, judgment, and responsibility at the table.
Essays, salons, and public conversations about the human conditions of living and learning with AI.
The AI & Humanities Salon creates a bridge between practical experimentation and philosophical reflection. Its purpose is not to romanticize or reject technology, but to ask what kinds of attention, agency, relationship, and responsibility intelligent systems invite us to cultivate.
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Selected themes
PRACTICE
From Instructions to Systems: Four Engineering Perspectives
An accessible account of how prompts become roles, workflows, feedback loops, and governed systems.
SALON
AI, education, and the future of human growth
A continuing conversation among educators, technologists, students, and reflective practitioners.
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Conversation principles
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Slow down the obvious answer
Create enough distance to notice assumptions, absences, and alternative framings.
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Connect systems to lived experience
Ask how abstractions change attention, relationships, work, learning, and responsibility.
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Practice intellectual hospitality
Make room for disagreement, uncertainty, and perspectives that complicate the prevailing story.