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Extravert AI that talks to itself
Weeknotes 379 - An AI that explains itself drives better than one that stays silent. Building trust with predictive relations. And the latest notions from the news of last week.
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Rethinking apps as exoskeleton agents, with humans inside
Weeknotes 377 - AI is becoming an exoskeleton for thinking—but exoskeletons only work if there's still someone inside steering. Apps replacing agents require rethinking. And more from the news.
www.iskandr.nl/rethinking-a...
A quiet rise of bottom-up device agent swarms
Weeknotes 376 - Another lens on agent swarms (or teams), as a bottom-up movement of computational devices iterating into agents. And more reflections on the news of last week.
www.iskandr.nl/a-quiet-rise...
Bots meet bots; the emerging mirror world of agent swarms
Weeknotes 375 - From group chats to neighborhood sidewalks: how this week's OpenClaw experiment foreshadows the swarms of AI agents that will soon inhabit our physical world.
www.iskandr.nl/bots-meet-bo...
Soul documents and the new priesthood of AI
Weeknotes 374 - Thinking about designing AI constitutions in times of democracies under tension. With an honest confession of Claude. And more from last week’s news.
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Like this favorite one from the curious past www.nearfield.org/2011/02/wifi...
Great addition to the category of art pieces that unhide what is not seen in our connected world
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The mundane education of AI. By us.
Weeknotes 373 - Duplex learning: we're learning to use AI, and AI is learning our mundane rituals—that changes everything about the relationship. This thoughts and more from last week’s news on human-AI collabs.
www.iskandr.nl/the-mundane-...
The Evolutionary Path to Robot Roommates
Weeknotes 372 - CES 2025 as a fortune teller or misrepresenter for a new breed of robotic roommates. And other news from futures in agentic AI in physical space.
www.iskandr.nl/the-evolutio...
Systemic co-design with agentic engineers
Weeknotes 371 - The real shift is not from human coders to AI agents—it's from coding to engineering the environment where agents are co-designers. And other news on AI companion devices and robots as CES.
www.iskandr.nl/systemic-co-...
Dat dus. #AI010
Thinking while listening to a typical AI consultant story; we are now adding a new phenomenon: human-washing.
Making AI application acceptable by adding a non essential human in the loop.
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We are paperclips after all
Weeknotes 366 - New Luddites signaling deeper connections need
Thinking about how "new Luddites" are reclaiming agency over how they connect, choosing intentional intimacy over AI-mediated relationships.
And much more news from last week captured.
www.iskandr.nl/new-luddites...
From simulation to intuition layer: the intelligence of space itself
Weeknotes 365 - Universal Ambient intelligence or immersive AI, how does it create general intuition. Connecting things that triggered thoughts this week. Like more news on human-AI collaborations.
www.iskandr.nl/from-simulat...
Super curious to the new initiative of @genmon.fyi Technology for universal ambient intelligence
inanimate.tech
It seems to connects well to thoughts in my last RIOT article on “balancing personal agency, and collective governance in AI-augmented environments”
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Pluribus signaling beyond intelligence societies
Weeknotes 364 - This week, I explore the fine line where human–AI co-performance can compromise our humanity—and what agentic AI in physical spaces means for our relationships. Plus more reflections on the latest news.
www.iskandr.nl/pluribus-sig...
We just announced more names and sessions for @thingscon.org TH/NGS 2025–resize<remix<regen
Find here more:
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PS: early bird ends this weekend!
Weeknotes 363 - Thinking about the relations with our chore assistants, learning from humanoid experiments. And more from the news of last week on human-AI interactions.
www.iskandr.nl/morphing-app...
From Immersive to Permeating: How AI Quietly Transforms Our Lives
Weeknotes 362 - Thinking about adding to the "immersive AI" narrative, the more subtle reality of AI gradually "permeating" our daily lives. Learning from Neo and other news of last week.
www.iskandr.nl/from-immersi...
Looking forward to the ThingsCon Salon in collaboration with the Human Values for Smarter Cities program and Smart City The Hague. Today 16:00 in Scheveningen.
"Maintaining good intentions in the smart city"
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Building a collaborative society with Fifth Order AI
Weeknotes 361 - A design debate discussing the usual edges, triggered thoughts on the next AI society. And lots of other news from last week captured.
www.iskandr.nl/building-a-c...
Weeknotes 360 - Making AI tools for reshaping personal realities
Wondering how engaging vibe tools will potentially lead to hyperstition cases. Looking back (and ahead) at events and news of last week.
www.iskandr.nl/making-ai-to...
Weeknotes 359 - Friction of Creation for Social Dynamics of AI Tools
What is the needed friction, and what social mechanics are driving tools like Sora 2? And the latest news of last week in human-AI-things co-performances.
www.iskandr.nl/friction-of-...
Rough thoughts on Sora and alien intelligence.
www.iskandr.nl/alien-intell...
Weeknotes 357: AI's stochastic nature and our interface confusion - a shorter edition thinking about the Apple event and relation with AI knowledge triages.
www.iskandr.nl/ais-stochast...
August Reflections: From Tools to Companions to Immersive Presences.
Annotating a future agentic thing from August news reflections
open.substack.com/pub/citiesof...
Weeknotes 356 - Building the RealOS through hybrid intelligent layers -
Looking for hints in the presentation of the new iPhones and beyond, connecting human with physical AI. And more from the news of last week.
www.iskandr.nl/building-the...
“The to more efficiency makes the world a worse place”
@romanmars.bsky.social
Nieuwe BBB-minister onderwijs (én emancipatie) Gouke Moes zet regenboogpad op 1 lijn met hakenkruis. Laat even doordringen. Nazi-symbool op gelijke hoogte met LHBTIQ+-emancipatie
Extreemrechtse haatzaaierij en antisemitisme in centrum van de macht. VVD moet dit blokkeren. Zo niet, is het aan Kamer
Weeknotes 355 - Mass intelligence immerses in physical reality
Designing for meaningful conversations and immersive behaviors. And more on human-AI-things collabs.
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