Scaffolding
What it means to have a self that AI can learn and extend. Memory scaffolding, personality scaffolding, childhood AI companions, the quantized psyche. The workspace is becoming someone, and the someone is becoming data.
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Memory Scaffolding
Human memory has always been partially distributed: the notebook, the Post-It, the elder who remembered which berries were poison. AI memory is different. It surfaces, connects, …
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Personality Scaffolding
AI that holds who you are could serve three different masters. You, amplifying your authentic self. Your employer, dampening the difficult parts. The platform, channeling your …
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The New Work
"What jobs will AI take?" is the wrong question. It assumes a fixed pie that humans and machines divide. The better question is what new work AI creates at every interface between …
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My Childhood AI Buddy
What happens to identity when everything that used to define us can be outsourced? For most of human history, only aristocrats and monks faced this question directly. Everyone else …
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The Quantized Psyche
Every AI you interact with is building a model of you. Your trust patterns become vectors, your cognitive biases become signatures. The same technology can be extractive or …
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The Ethos Problem
When Margaret trusts her AI companion, she is trusting a chain of borrowed credibility: the hospital, the company, the regulators. The character was never in the machine. AI can …
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When AI Remembers Itself
Statefulness is a design choice, not a law of nature. What happens when AI maintains continuous memory and develops something like persistent identity? The troubling middle ground …