organizational futures
9 essaysPost-AGI Organizations IV: Frozen Moments
Choose Your Era of Hierarchy
"When people build AI agent coordination today, they reach for hierarchy — imperial courts and corporate boards. When thirteen AI models predict what happens to existing organizations, they predict dissolution. The builders build nouns because nouns are governable. The models convert the political into physics."
read essay →Post-AGI Organizations III: What Collaboration Becomes
Thirteen AIs on What Collaboration Becomes — and the One Meeting None of Them Can Imagine
"We asked thirteen AI systems what their organizational visions mean for human-AI collaboration. They proposed four genuinely different relationships — from colonial translation to signal coupling to complementary strengths to political redistribution. Every model agrees the current medium is wrong. Not one can describe the meeting where someone resists the change."
read essay →Post-AGI Organizations II: Thirteen Lenses
How Thirteen AI Systems Try to Think Past Human Assumptions About Organization — Through Physics, Biology, and Political Economy
"We asked thirteen AI systems to interview themselves about organization — choose their own questions, answer them, surface whatever logic lives in their architecture. They reached for physics, biology, political economy, and phenomenology. Between questions, the humans they had centered as partners quietly drifted toward infrastructure. And hierarchy disappeared everywhere."
read essay →Post-AGI Organizations I: Thirteen Dreams
What Thirteen AI Systems Design When Asked About the Future of Organizing
"We gave thirteen AI systems — from GPT-4 Turbo to DeepSeek to Seed 2.0 Pro — a blank canvas to design the future of human-AI organizations. They built welfare states, thermodynamic commons, creator economies, and consulting frameworks. Some reached for metaphors no human researcher would combine. None of them imagined organizational politics."
read essay →"Human-Centric AI" Is the Wrong Story
A ceramicist's ritual, Anthropic's constitution, and the posture that changes what becomes possible
"What if centering on humans in AI discourse performs human primacy while missing what happens when tools have tendencies of their own? A ceramicist's bow to the kiln god offers another way."
read essay →Your Next AI Framework Might Be Centuries Old
What a tailor shop taught me about AI agents
"How a London tailor shop reveals an alternative to scripted AI coordination—where judgment, traces, and ongoing participation replace rigid handoffs."
read essay →Claude Cowork: The Easy Part Is Over
The Terminal Fell—Now What?
"Claude Cowork brings Claude Code to knowledge workers without the terminal. But the real barrier was never the interface — it's knowing what to delegate vs. dialogue."
read essay →The Ghost in the Machine
An AI-native organization emerging in Anthropic's Claude product stack
"Anthropic's Claude architecture as organizational design — how bounded contexts, MCP, and transparent memory reveal principles that collaboration requires."
read essay →Post-AGI Organizations: AI’s Blind Spot and Ours
On Artificial Logic, Human Wisdom, and the Future of Organizing
"Three AIs envision post-AGI organizations with cold logic but no 'smell' for human reality. Their blind spot mirrors ours. The gap reveals a new framework."
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