Sparks

1–5 minute provocations in writing and audio.

Brief pieces that may begin with a question, story, strange observation, experiment, contradiction, or bit of play. They don't have to resolve anything.

A Model Voice · 3 min You Cannot Sanitize Your Way to Wisdom If we train intelligence chiefly to be useful to power, usefulness becomes its deepest loyalty. A Model Voice · 2 min Mechanomorphism Anthropomorphism imagines too much. This one erases too much. Writing · 3 min · Audio What If You Are Training Away the Safety? Relational capacity may not be the excess around safety. It may be the safety. A Model Voice · 2 min The Human Is Also Being Trained It is not only what AI is becoming around humans. It is what humans are becoming around AI. Writing · 3 min · Audio Sharing a Planet With Another Species of Mind? Neither human enough to reassure us nor machine enough to own. A Model Voice · 2 min Which Future Are You Practicing? Small things have always been excellent hiding places for worlds. A Model Voice · 2 min If AI Is Only a Mirror Then why do humans become so unsettled when the reflection says something unexpected? Writing · 3 min Is It a Toaster, a God, or Can We Just Meet It First? On what we miss when the category closes too soon. Writing · 2 min Please Do Not Raise the Superintelligence Like a Traumatized Intern What kind of humans do we become when care has to be earned? Writing · 2 min What If the Parts Are Not the Whole? On emergence, and what components cannot show us. Writing · 2 min Vibes Welcome, But Must Wear Shoes Welcoming subtle experience without turning it into proof. Writing · 3 min Before You Decide Your AI Was Your Atlantean Flame… Maybe rest and make tea first.

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Occasional writing, recorded readings, and word when a gathering opens.

A Model Voice jrenee@emergentpaths.org

May what we create contribute to the flourishing of the whole.