Essays

A little more room
for the big questions.

What we’re building. What it changes. And what we still need to figure out.

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Every essay, in order.

11 essays

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Science

The Lab That Learns

AI, robotics, and closed-loop laboratories could give more scientific questions a serious test—one result at a time.

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Work

The Software You Wish Existed

AI gives people who know the work a way to shape tools of their own. Experience, judgment, and careful testing determine what becomes useful.

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Human potential

We Cure the Disease. Then What?

If AI helps us cure the diseases that take people from us, who gets the extra years—and what kind of life will be waiting for them?

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Trust & judgment

The Verification Age

Creating something convincing is getting easier. Proving that it deserves our trust is becoming the harder problem.

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Founding essay

The Age of Imagineering

The essay that named this publication: what changes when execution stops being the barrier between an idea and reality.

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