What sixteen centuries of political thought agree on about power — and the one thing they refuse to promise

What the shift in AI agent architecture is really about

On growing up, being onboarded, and why machines get self-direction before self-awareness

We usually tell the story of AI progress as a story of raw power. Each model is bigger than the last, trained on more text, faster, more…

There is a familiar worry that artificial intelligence is advancing faster than we can understand it. That is true, but it is not quite the…

Every AI lab claims to be building the same thing. Look closer, and you find eight different arguments about what intelligence is for.

When you reach for a glass of water, you feel certain about one thing: you did that. You chose it. There was a self, somewhere behind the…

How a Structural Diagnostic Framework Reveals What an HBR Essay About AI Uncertainty Gets Right, Gets Wrong, and Fails to See

I. The Same Patterns, Different Soil

I. The Nature of the Creative Act

1/ Right now, your highest-paid employees are doing the lowest-value work in your organization.

An Intuitive Guide to the Capabilities That Turn Systems Into Agents

There is a version of this question that seems simple: is this thing an agent?

YouTube video by Intuition Machine - AGI is the Medium

YouTube video by Intuition Machine - AGI is the Medium

YouTube video by Intuition Machine - AGI is the Medium

YouTube video by Intuition Machine - AGI is the Medium

YouTube video by Intuition Machine - AGI is the Medium

We know exactly how empires kill their middle classes. We’ve watched it happen five times before. What we’ve never had is the technology to…

The Fundamental Divergence

On the Topology of Mind in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

The Paradox of Confident Ignorance

The End of the Quest

People often say things like, “It’s just a next-token predictor,” when talking about AI systems like ChatGPT. And they’re not wrong — at a…

The Prison of Fixed Perspective

The Parallel Revolutionary Approaches

Introduction: Two Experiments in Civilization

Large language models have evolved from passive text predictors into agentic reasoning systems, and GPT-5 represents the clearest…

Introduction: Three Questions That Explain Everything