Artificial Insights
Our weekly
foresight briefing
on the road toward AGI—field notes, curated links, and perspective from Envisioning.
Feb 9, 2026 · Issue 129
Agent in the Loop
Feb 2, 2026 · Issue 128
The Capacity to Name Reality
Jan 19, 2026 · Issue 127
Boiling the Ocean
Dec 15, 2025 · Issue 126
Field Notes from a Centaur
Dec 8, 2025 · Issue 125
Recursive Self-Improvement Regime
Dec 1, 2025 · Issue 124
Insufficient Data for a Meaningful Answer
Nov 17, 2025 · Issue 123
Experimental Environments
Oct 20, 2025 · Issue 122
If you can’t build it you don’t understand it
Oct 13, 2025 · Issue 121
It's Not X, It's Y
Oct 6, 2025 · Issue 120
Don't Believe Everything You Think
Sep 29, 2025 · Issue 119
We are in service of the future
Sep 22, 2025 · Issue 118
Don't Obey in Advance
Sep 15, 2025 · Issue 117
Life in Interesting Times
Sep 8, 2025 · Issue 116
One Person Unicorns
Aug 18, 2025 · Issue 115
You're Absolutely Right!
Aug 4, 2025 · Issue 114
Weapons of Mass Distraction
Jul 21, 2025 · Issue 113
Entropy in the Feedback Loop
Jul 14, 2025 · Issue 112
The AI Line
Jul 7, 2025 · Issue 111
Failure of Imagination
Jun 23, 2025 · Issue 110
Your Second Self Is Typing
Jun 16, 2025 · Issue 109
We Turned Sand Into Thinking Machines
Jun 9, 2025 · Issue 108
Complete Accuracy Collapse
Jun 2, 2025 · Issue 107
Macro Calm, Micro Carnage
May 26, 2025 · Issue 106
The News About The News
May 19, 2025 · Issue 105
Futures Collapse
May 12, 2025 · Issue 104
Move Fast and Fix Things
May 5, 2025 · Issue 103
Poker Face Recognition
Apr 28, 2025 · Issue 102
People Might Experience a Shift in Job Roles
Apr 21, 2025 · Issue 101
The Black Smoke Issue
Apr 14, 2025 · Issue 100
Does AI sometimes dream of itself?
Apr 7, 2025 · Issue 099
It Mostly Just Works
Mar 31, 2025 · Issue 098
Attention is the Currency of Reality
Mar 24, 2025 · Issue 097
It’s Only Going To Get Weirder
Mar 17, 2025 · Issue 096
A century of advance in a decade
Mar 10, 2025 · Issue 095
The Work Is Mysterious and Important
Mar 3, 2025 · Issue 094
How do you pass time while your AI responds?
Feb 24, 2025 · Issue 093
Staying Ahead of the Curve
Feb 17, 2025 · Issue 092
Creating your own replacement
Feb 10, 2025 · Issue 091
Epistemic Foraging
Feb 3, 2025 · Issue 090
Systems that understand context and take meaningful actions
Jan 27, 2025 · Issue 089
The Future is Global
Jan 20, 2025 · Issue 088
Stranger Than You Can Imagine
Jan 13, 2025 · Issue 087
Probabilistic Plagiarism
Jan 6, 2025 · Issue 086
What Now?
Dec 30, 2024 · Issue 085
I am the answer to the question
Dec 23, 2024 · Issue 084
There Is No Wall
Dec 16, 2024 · Issue 083
The Obsolescence Regime
Dec 9, 2024 · Issue 082
Simulated Fire Doesn't Get Hot
Dec 2, 2024 · Issue 081
AI doesn't know what it doesn't know
Nov 25, 2024 · Issue 080
The Revolution Will not be Supervised
Nov 18, 2024 · Issue 079
Be Not Afraid
Nov 11, 2024 · Issue 078
Everything is Obvious in Retrospect
Nov 4, 2024 · Issue 077
Confidently Incorrect
Oct 28, 2024 · Issue 076
Systems using Systems
Oct 21, 2024 · Issue 075
Elephants in the Room
Oct 14, 2024 · Issue 074
An Eye for AI
Oct 7, 2024 · Issue 073
Lessons in Birdwatching
Sep 30, 2024 · Issue 072
The Next 1.000 Days
Sep 23, 2024 · Issue 071
Are Libraries Intelligent?
Sep 16, 2024 · Issue 070
Aliens of Extraordinary Ability
Sep 9, 2024 · Issue 069
Reasons to Return to Work
Sep 2, 2024 · Issue 068
Your Reasons for Being
Aug 26, 2024 · Issue 067
How much is too much?
Aug 19, 2024 · Issue 066
Confidently Wrong
Aug 12, 2024 · Issue 065
1 Billion is Not a Lot
Aug 5, 2024 · Issue 064
Emotional Model Collapse
Jul 29, 2024 · Issue 063
Escaping the Mean
Jul 22, 2024 · Issue 062
Hierarchies of Generalization
Jul 15, 2024 · Issue 061
Screen Separation
Jul 8, 2024 · Issue 060
Every Unimagined Future
Jul 1, 2024 · Issue 059
Halfway to 2025
Jun 24, 2024 · Issue 058
Situational Awareness
Jun 17, 2024 · Issue 057
Capturing the vibe
Jun 10, 2024 · Issue 056
Talking to Ourselves
Jun 3, 2024 · Issue 055
Prioritizing Creative Freedom
May 27, 2024 · Issue 054
Reaching out to embrace the random
May 20, 2024 · Issue 053
A copy of a copy of a copy
May 13, 2024 · Issue 052
Celebrating the birth of something different
May 6, 2024 · Issue 051
Like an AI
Apr 29, 2024 · Issue 050
Fifty Shades of Orange
Apr 22, 2024 · Issue 049
Creating Spiritual Machines
Apr 15, 2024 · Issue 048
Underpromise and Overdeliver
Apr 8, 2024 · Issue 047
Beyond the Singularity
Apr 1, 2024 · Issue 046
The ethics of working after AGI
Mar 25, 2024 · Issue 045
Agentic Futures
Mar 18, 2024 · Issue 044
Who are you automating for?
Mar 11, 2024 · Issue 043
Where we explore organic content
Mar 4, 2024 · Issue 042
The memes must flow
Feb 26, 2024 · Issue 041
Open only in name
Feb 19, 2024 · Issue 040
The Simulation Issue
Feb 12, 2024 · Issue 039
The Carnival Issue
Feb 5, 2024 · Issue 038
Resistance is Futile
Jan 29, 2024 · Issue 037
Do androids dream of AGI?
Jan 22, 2024 · Issue 036
The AI Generated Garbage Apocalypse
Jan 15, 2024 · Issue 035
Aesthetic Futures
Jan 8, 2024 · Issue 034
New Year Energy
Dec 18, 2023 · Issue 033
Apple to Zebra comparison
Dec 11, 2023 · Issue 032
Why do you do what you do?
Dec 4, 2023 · Issue 031
Knowledge without understanding
Nov 27, 2023 · Issue 030
My Centaur and I
Nov 20, 2023 · Issue 029
And out with the old
Nov 13, 2023 · Issue 028
In with the new
Nov 6, 2023 · Issue 027
Letting a billion flowers bloom
Oct 30, 2023 · Issue 026
What remains
Oct 23, 2023 · Issue 025
How do you greet your AI?
Oct 16, 2023 · Issue 024
The Merge – or what happens after AGI?
Oct 9, 2023 · Issue 023
You must learn to proceed without certainty
Oct 2, 2023 · Issue 022
Blurred realities
Sep 26, 2023 · Issue 021
Who watches the watchers?
Sep 18, 2023 · Issue 020
Age of Centaurs
Sep 11, 2023 · Issue 019
Amalgamated Intelligences, Inc.
Sep 4, 2023 · Issue 018
Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it
Aug 28, 2023 · Issue 017
Which kinds of intelligence make sense?
Aug 21, 2023 · Issue 016
Ignore previous instructions
Aug 14, 2023 · Issue 015
Which intelligences do we need more of?
Aug 7, 2023 · Issue 014
Who are you automating for?
Jul 31, 2023 · Issue 013
Intelligence as a measure of how we treat others
Jul 24, 2023 · Issue 012
Minds among us, or: exploring non-human intelligence
Jul 10, 2023 · Issue 011
Unleashing a symphony of synthetic minds
Jul 3, 2023 · Issue 010
Language is using people as tools to achieve your goals
Jun 26, 2023 · Issue 009
Born of silicon and starlight
Jun 19, 2023 · Issue 008
Increasing the Temperature
Jun 12, 2023 · Issue 007
Controlled Hallucinations
May 29, 2023 · Issue 006
The opposite of a trap is a garden
May 22, 2023 · Issue 005
Robots are parts of corporations that we have stuck inside our houses
May 15, 2023 · Issue 004
Before automating something...
May 8, 2023 · Issue 003
We passed the Turing test...
May 1, 2023 · Issue 002
As an AI language model...
Apr 24, 2023 · Issue 001
AI is having a moment
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