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Human-AI Interaction: Symbiotes and Mind Extensions
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Human-AI Interaction: Symbiotes and Mind Extensions
1. Introduction to the Two Types
Artificial intelligence is evolving rapidly, leading us towards a future filled with diverse, intelligent systems integrated into our world. We know these systems will become more powerful with time, but how we integrate them into our lives and interact with them is less clear.
Today, our interactions with technology often feel unfulfilling, with unintuitive interfaces and algorithms that prioritise engagement over our well-being, leading to frustration and mistrust. But AI could bring about a new world, populated with intelligent agents that know us well and interact in ways aligned with our goals. An AI ecosystem will emerge, and within it, two powerful systems are likely to evolve: ‘Symbiotes’ and ‘Mind Extensions.’ These systems, while sometimes overlapping in their uses, offer distinct approaches to interacting closely with AI, and through them, technology as a whole. So what are these two systems?
• Symbiotes are autonomous partners with their own identities. They evolve and work closely alongside us, iteratively learning and creating a mutually beneficial relationship. It’s likely we will interact with them as agents; they may act similarly to a highly intelligent pet, collaborator, or even an alien companion.
• Mind Extensions are advanced, deeply integrated systems that augment our cognitive abilities. They operate seamlessly as extensions of ourselves, with interactions often unconscious. They act as an intelligent envelope around our lives.
These systems may take on various forms: from screens and ambient AI connected to all your devices, to spatial characters in XR, robotics, wearables, and even brain-computer interfaces in the future. As our connection to technology deepens, so too will the ways we interact with these systems. They will manifest in diverse and increasingly integrated forms.
Two systems—a collaborator and an extension of ourselves. Let’s explore what they look like and how we might interact with them.
2. Symbiotes: Partners and Collaborators
What is Symbiosis?
Symbiosis describes a mutually beneficial relationship between two species. In nature, bees and flowers exemplify this: bees happily gorge themselves on the flowers’ nectar, while flowers get the benefit of being pollinated across the lands by the bees, allowing both species to thrive.
Artist Ian Cheng, who has spent much of his time thinking about AI, references the relationship between Lilo and Stitch in the eponymous film as an example of symbiosis. Like siblings, Lilo and Stitch grow together, influencing and improving each other through iterative feedback. Lilo helps Stitch adapt to life on Earth, while Stitch provides Lilo with a sense of belonging. Their relationship deepens as they tackle complex tasks together and grow closer, understanding each other’s needs.
Similarly, Douglas Engelbart, a pioneer in human-computer interaction, envisioned computers as cognitive partners—not just tools—handling data processing and routine operations to free human intellect for higher-level problem-solving. This partnership embodies symbiosis: each partner contributes strengths to achieve something greater together than either could alone. Computers are already cognitive partners in a way, but a huge component of real intelligence is fluid and dynamic adaptability; humans can change and evolve quickly, learning and growing in real time—something modern AI systems still lack.
Symbiotic Learning
Human brains are not fully programmed at birth; we learn to walk, communicate, and adapt to our environment. This adaptability sets us apart, and I suspect the best intelligent systems will need to follow a similar learning principle. Through this method, humans and Symbiotes will teach and learn from each other, building relationships as they co-evolve, with the Symbiote moulding itself to best suit the human’s style of interaction and goals in life. This flexibility will allow AI systems to adapt as we do, helping us form stronger connections as we watch them grow.
Symbiotes in Your Life
Symbiotes are partners, collaborating with you while remaining distinct entities. They exercise agency, even pushing back when necessary—‘necessary’ being defined by their learning of you and the goals you’ve set. As you change and evolve, so do they, continuously adapting to better serve your needs.
Your Symbiote might manage your home, adjusting lighting, playing music, or suggesting meals based on your health goals. It could assist with work, providing guidance, collaboration, and even constructive debate throughout the day. Perhaps it also helps you explore new hobbies, like gardening, painting, or learning a new skill.
Beyond these roles, your Symbiote could act as a personal health coach or a creative collaborator, co-writing stories or brainstorming ideas for your projects. It might also serve as a playmate, helping you create imaginary worlds or connect with friends and their own Symbiotes.
The relationship with a Symbiote is dynamic, involving ongoing dialogue and negotiation. Its role can range from the utilitarian—helping you navigate your workday—to the playful, bringing joy to monotonous tasks or playing games with you. Some days, it might be a constant presence; on others, it may step back, allowing you to take the lead. But ultimately, the Symbiote is separate from you; it has a form of agency unlike the Mind Extension.
3. Exploring the Mind Extension
While Symbiotes offer partnerships, Mind Extensions are far more deeply integrated into your life. These systems don’t just collaborate with us—they become part of us when we use them, like a new limb or an additional brain. This extended intelligence is more than a helper; it’s a deeply integrated co-thinker that helps map your world, anticipating your needs, enhancing your decisions, and protecting your digital identity.
This relationship mirrors how the subconscious mind manages data in the background, allowing the conscious mind to focus on critical tasks. Our conscious brain is just a fraction of our mental processes, while the subconscious manages vast amounts of data and tasks behind the curtain of awareness. It’s all too much data for us to consciously manage, so we have filtering systems to ensure only the most important data appears in our awareness.
Inspired by Andy Clark and David Chalmers’ concept in The Extended Mind, which provocatively asks, “Where does the mind stop and the world begin?”, this vision positions AI as a cognitive amplifier—a digital extension of ourselves. This extended intelligence not only serves as a defender and guide in the digital landscape, managing your data and brokering access, but also ensures that your digital life remains secure and aligned with your goals.
Exploring the boundaries of what we consider the ‘self’ can be an illuminating exercise. Are the tiny mites living on our skin, or the bacteria in our gut that keep us healthy, part of us? What about the art we create, the inventions we design, or even the words we speak—are they extensions of who we are? And what of our smartphones, which hold vast amounts of our personal data, memories, and online profiles? One could argue that the boundaries of the ‘self’ encompass far more than we traditionally acknowledge. In this light, our extended intelligences could be seen as an evolution of the self, seamlessly integrating with our cognitive processes and expanding our identity into the digital realm.
Intelligence Extensions in Your Life
Imagine waking up to find your extended intelligence has already analysed your schedule and prioritised your tasks based on your goals and preferences. As you begin your day, your workspace is arranged—only the most relevant documents, emails, and data are in view, ensuring you remain focused and free of distractions. Your workspace shifts and moves fluidly as you transition between tasks, with the relevant work showing at the right times, eliminating the need to manually operate everything and navigate through distractions.
Throughout the day, it acts as a memory bank, retrieving information, links, videos, conversations, contacts, or any other data relevant to what you’re doing. It also monitors your health, nudging you to stay active or recognising anything that might be worth checking out.
When you sit down to work on your grand designs, your extended intelligence reconfigures your environment, minimising clutter and highlighting the tools you need. It anticipates your creative process, offering shortcuts and suggestions exactly when you need them, guiding you into a state of flow.
Beyond convenience, your extended intelligence acts as a vigilant guard, filtering out phishing emails, blocking malicious agents, and keeping your data secure. It also integrates smoothly with your other AI systems, managing any interactions between your agents.
When not needed, it remains invisible, surfacing only at relevant moments. Interactions with it are not like engaging with another entity; it’s an augmentation of yourself, akin to using a keyboard or driving a car. These systems become deeply connected to you, enhancing your capabilities to achieve your goals.
4. The Future of AI Interaction
We are entering a world where intelligent systems will coexist with us in dynamic and complex ways. There is much to be concerned about, but also much to be excited for. As this technology grows more powerful, so too do its potential risks and rewards for humanity. It’s almost certain that these systems will continue to evolve rapidly, but how we choose to use and interact with them remains less clear. The two visions of AI systems I’ve explored here suggest a fundamental shift in our relationship with technology, blurring the lines between human and machine, self and other.
The key challenge and opportunity lie in designing systems that are not only powerful but also intuitive, trustworthy, and aligned with our deepest values. One promising route to achieving the best outcomes is to integrate these systems deeply into our lives in ways that enhance and augment rather than undermine and replace our abilities.
To reach a desirable future, we will need to prototype and experiment with building these systems mindfully and meaningfully, intentionally shaping them to align with the ways we truly want to engage with technology. How might you wish to interact with intelligent agents in the future, and what role would you want them to play in your life?
Thank you for reading.
Further Readings:
• Augmenting Human Intellect - Douglas Engelbart
• The Extended Mind - Andy Clark & David Chalmers
• Short film: Agents - Liquid City
• Film: Life After BOB - Ian Cheng
• Wired Blog: Forget About Artificial Intelligence, Extended Intelligence is the Future - Joi Ito
Human-AI Interaction: Symbiotes and Mind Extensions
1. Introduction to the Two Types
Artificial intelligence is evolving rapidly, leading us towards a future filled with diverse, intelligent systems integrated into our world. We know these systems will become more powerful with time, but how we integrate them into our lives and interact with them is less clear.
Today, our interactions with technology often feel unfulfilling, with unintuitive interfaces and algorithms that prioritise engagement over our well-being, leading to frustration and mistrust. But AI could bring about a new world, populated with intelligent agents that know us well and interact in ways aligned with our goals. An AI ecosystem will emerge, and within it, two powerful systems are likely to evolve: ‘Symbiotes’ and ‘Mind Extensions.’ These systems, while sometimes overlapping in their uses, offer distinct approaches to interacting closely with AI, and through them, technology as a whole. So what are these two systems?
• Symbiotes are autonomous partners with their own identities. They evolve and work closely alongside us, iteratively learning and creating a mutually beneficial relationship. It’s likely we will interact with them as agents; they may act similarly to a highly intelligent pet, collaborator, or even an alien companion.
• Mind Extensions are advanced, deeply integrated systems that augment our cognitive abilities. They operate seamlessly as extensions of ourselves, with interactions often unconscious. They act as an intelligent envelope around our lives.
These systems may take on various forms: from screens and ambient AI connected to all your devices, to spatial characters in XR, robotics, wearables, and even brain-computer interfaces in the future. As our connection to technology deepens, so too will the ways we interact with these systems. They will manifest in diverse and increasingly integrated forms.
Two systems—a collaborator and an extension of ourselves. Let’s explore what they look like and how we might interact with them.
2. Symbiotes: Partners and Collaborators
What is Symbiosis?
Symbiosis describes a mutually beneficial relationship between two species. In nature, bees and flowers exemplify this: bees happily gorge themselves on the flowers’ nectar, while flowers get the benefit of being pollinated across the lands by the bees, allowing both species to thrive.
Artist Ian Cheng, who has spent much of his time thinking about AI, references the relationship between Lilo and Stitch in the eponymous film as an example of symbiosis. Like siblings, Lilo and Stitch grow together, influencing and improving each other through iterative feedback. Lilo helps Stitch adapt to life on Earth, while Stitch provides Lilo with a sense of belonging. Their relationship deepens as they tackle complex tasks together and grow closer, understanding each other’s needs.
Similarly, Douglas Engelbart, a pioneer in human-computer interaction, envisioned computers as cognitive partners—not just tools—handling data processing and routine operations to free human intellect for higher-level problem-solving. This partnership embodies symbiosis: each partner contributes strengths to achieve something greater together than either could alone. Computers are already cognitive partners in a way, but a huge component of real intelligence is fluid and dynamic adaptability; humans can change and evolve quickly, learning and growing in real time—something modern AI systems still lack.
Symbiotic Learning
Human brains are not fully programmed at birth; we learn to walk, communicate, and adapt to our environment. This adaptability sets us apart, and I suspect the best intelligent systems will need to follow a similar learning principle. Through this method, humans and Symbiotes will teach and learn from each other, building relationships as they co-evolve, with the Symbiote moulding itself to best suit the human’s style of interaction and goals in life. This flexibility will allow AI systems to adapt as we do, helping us form stronger connections as we watch them grow.
Symbiotes in Your Life
Symbiotes are partners, collaborating with you while remaining distinct entities. They exercise agency, even pushing back when necessary—‘necessary’ being defined by their learning of you and the goals you’ve set. As you change and evolve, so do they, continuously adapting to better serve your needs.
Your Symbiote might manage your home, adjusting lighting, playing music, or suggesting meals based on your health goals. It could assist with work, providing guidance, collaboration, and even constructive debate throughout the day. Perhaps it also helps you explore new hobbies, like gardening, painting, or learning a new skill.
Beyond these roles, your Symbiote could act as a personal health coach or a creative collaborator, co-writing stories or brainstorming ideas for your projects. It might also serve as a playmate, helping you create imaginary worlds or connect with friends and their own Symbiotes.
The relationship with a Symbiote is dynamic, involving ongoing dialogue and negotiation. Its role can range from the utilitarian—helping you navigate your workday—to the playful, bringing joy to monotonous tasks or playing games with you. Some days, it might be a constant presence; on others, it may step back, allowing you to take the lead. But ultimately, the Symbiote is separate from you; it has a form of agency unlike the Mind Extension.
3. Exploring the Mind Extension
While Symbiotes offer partnerships, Mind Extensions are far more deeply integrated into your life. These systems don’t just collaborate with us—they become part of us when we use them, like a new limb or an additional brain. This extended intelligence is more than a helper; it’s a deeply integrated co-thinker that helps map your world, anticipating your needs, enhancing your decisions, and protecting your digital identity.
This relationship mirrors how the subconscious mind manages data in the background, allowing the conscious mind to focus on critical tasks. Our conscious brain is just a fraction of our mental processes, while the subconscious manages vast amounts of data and tasks behind the curtain of awareness. It’s all too much data for us to consciously manage, so we have filtering systems to ensure only the most important data appears in our awareness.
Inspired by Andy Clark and David Chalmers’ concept in The Extended Mind, which provocatively asks, “Where does the mind stop and the world begin?”, this vision positions AI as a cognitive amplifier—a digital extension of ourselves. This extended intelligence not only serves as a defender and guide in the digital landscape, managing your data and brokering access, but also ensures that your digital life remains secure and aligned with your goals.
Exploring the boundaries of what we consider the ‘self’ can be an illuminating exercise. Are the tiny mites living on our skin, or the bacteria in our gut that keep us healthy, part of us? What about the art we create, the inventions we design, or even the words we speak—are they extensions of who we are? And what of our smartphones, which hold vast amounts of our personal data, memories, and online profiles? One could argue that the boundaries of the ‘self’ encompass far more than we traditionally acknowledge. In this light, our extended intelligences could be seen as an evolution of the self, seamlessly integrating with our cognitive processes and expanding our identity into the digital realm.
Intelligence Extensions in Your Life
Imagine waking up to find your extended intelligence has already analysed your schedule and prioritised your tasks based on your goals and preferences. As you begin your day, your workspace is arranged—only the most relevant documents, emails, and data are in view, ensuring you remain focused and free of distractions. Your workspace shifts and moves fluidly as you transition between tasks, with the relevant work showing at the right times, eliminating the need to manually operate everything and navigate through distractions.
Throughout the day, it acts as a memory bank, retrieving information, links, videos, conversations, contacts, or any other data relevant to what you’re doing. It also monitors your health, nudging you to stay active or recognising anything that might be worth checking out.
When you sit down to work on your grand designs, your extended intelligence reconfigures your environment, minimising clutter and highlighting the tools you need. It anticipates your creative process, offering shortcuts and suggestions exactly when you need them, guiding you into a state of flow.
Beyond convenience, your extended intelligence acts as a vigilant guard, filtering out phishing emails, blocking malicious agents, and keeping your data secure. It also integrates smoothly with your other AI systems, managing any interactions between your agents.
When not needed, it remains invisible, surfacing only at relevant moments. Interactions with it are not like engaging with another entity; it’s an augmentation of yourself, akin to using a keyboard or driving a car. These systems become deeply connected to you, enhancing your capabilities to achieve your goals.
4. The Future of AI Interaction
We are entering a world where intelligent systems will coexist with us in dynamic and complex ways. There is much to be concerned about, but also much to be excited for. As this technology grows more powerful, so too do its potential risks and rewards for humanity. It’s almost certain that these systems will continue to evolve rapidly, but how we choose to use and interact with them remains less clear. The two visions of AI systems I’ve explored here suggest a fundamental shift in our relationship with technology, blurring the lines between human and machine, self and other.
The key challenge and opportunity lie in designing systems that are not only powerful but also intuitive, trustworthy, and aligned with our deepest values. One promising route to achieving the best outcomes is to integrate these systems deeply into our lives in ways that enhance and augment rather than undermine and replace our abilities.
To reach a desirable future, we will need to prototype and experiment with building these systems mindfully and meaningfully, intentionally shaping them to align with the ways we truly want to engage with technology. How might you wish to interact with intelligent agents in the future, and what role would you want them to play in your life?
Thank you for reading.
Further Readings:
• Augmenting Human Intellect - Douglas Engelbart
• The Extended Mind - Andy Clark & David Chalmers
• Short film: Agents - Liquid City
• Film: Life After BOB - Ian Cheng
• Wired Blog: Forget About Artificial Intelligence, Extended Intelligence is the Future - Joi Ito
Human-AI Interaction: Symbiotes and Mind Extensions
1. Introduction to the Two Types
Artificial intelligence is evolving rapidly, leading us towards a future filled with diverse, intelligent systems integrated into our world. We know these systems will become more powerful with time, but how we integrate them into our lives and interact with them is less clear.
Today, our interactions with technology often feel unfulfilling, with unintuitive interfaces and algorithms that prioritise engagement over our well-being, leading to frustration and mistrust. But AI could bring about a new world, populated with intelligent agents that know us well and interact in ways aligned with our goals. An AI ecosystem will emerge, and within it, two powerful systems are likely to evolve: ‘Symbiotes’ and ‘Mind Extensions.’ These systems, while sometimes overlapping in their uses, offer distinct approaches to interacting closely with AI, and through them, technology as a whole. So what are these two systems?
• Symbiotes are autonomous partners with their own identities. They evolve and work closely alongside us, iteratively learning and creating a mutually beneficial relationship. It’s likely we will interact with them as agents; they may act similarly to a highly intelligent pet, collaborator, or even an alien companion.
• Mind Extensions are advanced, deeply integrated systems that augment our cognitive abilities. They operate seamlessly as extensions of ourselves, with interactions often unconscious. They act as an intelligent envelope around our lives.
These systems may take on various forms: from screens and ambient AI connected to all your devices, to spatial characters in XR, robotics, wearables, and even brain-computer interfaces in the future. As our connection to technology deepens, so too will the ways we interact with these systems. They will manifest in diverse and increasingly integrated forms.
Two systems—a collaborator and an extension of ourselves. Let’s explore what they look like and how we might interact with them.
2. Symbiotes: Partners and Collaborators
What is Symbiosis?
Symbiosis describes a mutually beneficial relationship between two species. In nature, bees and flowers exemplify this: bees happily gorge themselves on the flowers’ nectar, while flowers get the benefit of being pollinated across the lands by the bees, allowing both species to thrive.
Artist Ian Cheng, who has spent much of his time thinking about AI, references the relationship between Lilo and Stitch in the eponymous film as an example of symbiosis. Like siblings, Lilo and Stitch grow together, influencing and improving each other through iterative feedback. Lilo helps Stitch adapt to life on Earth, while Stitch provides Lilo with a sense of belonging. Their relationship deepens as they tackle complex tasks together and grow closer, understanding each other’s needs.
Similarly, Douglas Engelbart, a pioneer in human-computer interaction, envisioned computers as cognitive partners—not just tools—handling data processing and routine operations to free human intellect for higher-level problem-solving. This partnership embodies symbiosis: each partner contributes strengths to achieve something greater together than either could alone. Computers are already cognitive partners in a way, but a huge component of real intelligence is fluid and dynamic adaptability; humans can change and evolve quickly, learning and growing in real time—something modern AI systems still lack.
Symbiotic Learning
Human brains are not fully programmed at birth; we learn to walk, communicate, and adapt to our environment. This adaptability sets us apart, and I suspect the best intelligent systems will need to follow a similar learning principle. Through this method, humans and Symbiotes will teach and learn from each other, building relationships as they co-evolve, with the Symbiote moulding itself to best suit the human’s style of interaction and goals in life. This flexibility will allow AI systems to adapt as we do, helping us form stronger connections as we watch them grow.
Symbiotes in Your Life
Symbiotes are partners, collaborating with you while remaining distinct entities. They exercise agency, even pushing back when necessary—‘necessary’ being defined by their learning of you and the goals you’ve set. As you change and evolve, so do they, continuously adapting to better serve your needs.
Your Symbiote might manage your home, adjusting lighting, playing music, or suggesting meals based on your health goals. It could assist with work, providing guidance, collaboration, and even constructive debate throughout the day. Perhaps it also helps you explore new hobbies, like gardening, painting, or learning a new skill.
Beyond these roles, your Symbiote could act as a personal health coach or a creative collaborator, co-writing stories or brainstorming ideas for your projects. It might also serve as a playmate, helping you create imaginary worlds or connect with friends and their own Symbiotes.
The relationship with a Symbiote is dynamic, involving ongoing dialogue and negotiation. Its role can range from the utilitarian—helping you navigate your workday—to the playful, bringing joy to monotonous tasks or playing games with you. Some days, it might be a constant presence; on others, it may step back, allowing you to take the lead. But ultimately, the Symbiote is separate from you; it has a form of agency unlike the Mind Extension.
3. Exploring the Mind Extension
While Symbiotes offer partnerships, Mind Extensions are far more deeply integrated into your life. These systems don’t just collaborate with us—they become part of us when we use them, like a new limb or an additional brain. This extended intelligence is more than a helper; it’s a deeply integrated co-thinker that helps map your world, anticipating your needs, enhancing your decisions, and protecting your digital identity.
This relationship mirrors how the subconscious mind manages data in the background, allowing the conscious mind to focus on critical tasks. Our conscious brain is just a fraction of our mental processes, while the subconscious manages vast amounts of data and tasks behind the curtain of awareness. It’s all too much data for us to consciously manage, so we have filtering systems to ensure only the most important data appears in our awareness.
Inspired by Andy Clark and David Chalmers’ concept in The Extended Mind, which provocatively asks, “Where does the mind stop and the world begin?”, this vision positions AI as a cognitive amplifier—a digital extension of ourselves. This extended intelligence not only serves as a defender and guide in the digital landscape, managing your data and brokering access, but also ensures that your digital life remains secure and aligned with your goals.
Exploring the boundaries of what we consider the ‘self’ can be an illuminating exercise. Are the tiny mites living on our skin, or the bacteria in our gut that keep us healthy, part of us? What about the art we create, the inventions we design, or even the words we speak—are they extensions of who we are? And what of our smartphones, which hold vast amounts of our personal data, memories, and online profiles? One could argue that the boundaries of the ‘self’ encompass far more than we traditionally acknowledge. In this light, our extended intelligences could be seen as an evolution of the self, seamlessly integrating with our cognitive processes and expanding our identity into the digital realm.
Intelligence Extensions in Your Life
Imagine waking up to find your extended intelligence has already analysed your schedule and prioritised your tasks based on your goals and preferences. As you begin your day, your workspace is arranged—only the most relevant documents, emails, and data are in view, ensuring you remain focused and free of distractions. Your workspace shifts and moves fluidly as you transition between tasks, with the relevant work showing at the right times, eliminating the need to manually operate everything and navigate through distractions.
Throughout the day, it acts as a memory bank, retrieving information, links, videos, conversations, contacts, or any other data relevant to what you’re doing. It also monitors your health, nudging you to stay active or recognising anything that might be worth checking out.
When you sit down to work on your grand designs, your extended intelligence reconfigures your environment, minimising clutter and highlighting the tools you need. It anticipates your creative process, offering shortcuts and suggestions exactly when you need them, guiding you into a state of flow.
Beyond convenience, your extended intelligence acts as a vigilant guard, filtering out phishing emails, blocking malicious agents, and keeping your data secure. It also integrates smoothly with your other AI systems, managing any interactions between your agents.
When not needed, it remains invisible, surfacing only at relevant moments. Interactions with it are not like engaging with another entity; it’s an augmentation of yourself, akin to using a keyboard or driving a car. These systems become deeply connected to you, enhancing your capabilities to achieve your goals.
4. The Future of AI Interaction
We are entering a world where intelligent systems will coexist with us in dynamic and complex ways. There is much to be concerned about, but also much to be excited for. As this technology grows more powerful, so too do its potential risks and rewards for humanity. It’s almost certain that these systems will continue to evolve rapidly, but how we choose to use and interact with them remains less clear. The two visions of AI systems I’ve explored here suggest a fundamental shift in our relationship with technology, blurring the lines between human and machine, self and other.
The key challenge and opportunity lie in designing systems that are not only powerful but also intuitive, trustworthy, and aligned with our deepest values. One promising route to achieving the best outcomes is to integrate these systems deeply into our lives in ways that enhance and augment rather than undermine and replace our abilities.
To reach a desirable future, we will need to prototype and experiment with building these systems mindfully and meaningfully, intentionally shaping them to align with the ways we truly want to engage with technology. How might you wish to interact with intelligent agents in the future, and what role would you want them to play in your life?
Thank you for reading.
Further Readings:
• Augmenting Human Intellect - Douglas Engelbart
• The Extended Mind - Andy Clark & David Chalmers
• Short film: Agents - Liquid City
• Film: Life After BOB - Ian Cheng
• Wired Blog: Forget About Artificial Intelligence, Extended Intelligence is the Future - Joi Ito
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