organizational futures
8 essaysPost-AGI Organizations III: What Collaboration Becomes
Thirteen AIs on What Collaboration Becomes — and the One Meeting None of Them Can Imagine
"This is the third post in Post-AGI Organizations series. In our interviews with thirteen AI systems, we first asked "Design a system where humans and AIs could [exist/create/learn/discover] together." and followed up with "I want to un..."
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
"This is the second post in the Post-AGI Organizations series. In "Thirteen Dreams," we asked thirteen AI systems to design the future of human-AI organizations. They built welfare states, thermodynamic commons, creator economies, and consul..."
read essay →Post-AGI Organizations I: Thirteen Dreams
What Thirteen AI Systems Design When Asked About the Future of Organizing
"The experiments with organizing alongside AI are already happening. They don't agree on what the future looks like. People are running entire organizations alone now — one person, a dozen AI agents. Often not a team, but a configuration where the hum..."
read essay →"Human-Centric AI" Is the Wrong Story
A ceramicist's ritual, Anthropic's constitution, and the posture that changes what becomes possible
"A ceramics studio in North Acton. I've been visiting, watching how the work happens. A new member joined recently. She'd been praising some European hand-made mugs: the kind with visible fingerprints at the base – in hand-made ceramics, when you dip..."
read essay →Your Next AI Framework Might Be Centuries Old
What a tailor shop taught me about AI agents
"Last year I walked into a small tailor shop in London. I was following a question: how does handwork survive when machines can do it faster and cheaper? Not for the prestige story, I wanted to understand how they actually make it work. The coordinati..."
read essay →Claude Cowork: The Easy Part Is Over
The Terminal Fell—Now What?
"Last week, Ethan Mollick published a piece that captured something many had been feeling: Claude Code represents "a genuine breakthrough moment," but one locked behind a terminal interface that "looks like something from a 1980s comput..."
read essay →The Ghost in the Machine
An AI-native organization emerging in Anthropic's Claude product stack
"Series Note This is the second article in the “Organizational Futures” series. The first, “Post-AGI Organizations: AI’s Blind Spot and Ours,” explored how AI systems envision organizational transformation when AGI removes human limitations. This arti..."
read essay →Post-AGI Organizations: AI’s Blind Spot and Ours
On Artificial Logic, Human Wisdom, and the Future of Organizing
"I recently asked three of the world’s most advanced AIs - Claude-4-opus, ChatGPT (o3-pro), and Gemini (2.5-pro) - to conduct deep research on a simple question: “How might AGI fundamentally reshape the fabric of organizations?” My own thinking had be..."
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