How to Become a Director of Intelligence: A 30-Day Action Plan Using Only a Chat Window
A 30-day practice plan for everyday people with only a free AI chat window: learning to direct AI rather than simply produce output.
Keeping your own direction
How to keep your own judgement when a machine can do more and more of the thinking.
AI Isn’t Your Friend: Why Chatbots Feel Caring, and What They Really Are
Why chatbots feel caring, how they actually work, and why being answered by one is not the same as being heard.
The Limbic Land Grab: Why Long Conversations with AI Feel So Intimate
Why long conversations with AI chatbots can feel intimate and hard to leave, and how to keep your agency in a relationship that is not reciprocal.
Playful Mastery: My Guiding Principle
Why rigour and play belong together: how methodical groundwork followed by loose questions became Aron Hosie’s guiding principle for thinking and learning.
Fantasy Is Delusion Without Vision: How to Build Your Own Superpower
Why daydreams turn sour without a second half: how pairing fantasy with disciplined questioning and action turns it into vision rather than delusion.
Sidestep to Obsolescence: The Hidden Path from AI Mimicry to Human Redundancy
Starting from Ex Machina, an essay on how AI that mimics us so fluently might quietly sidestep human roles, and what we risk by leaning on it.
AI as the Great Amplifier: Unlocking Personal Agency in the New Future
Why AI amplifies whatever we bring to it, our strengths and our shortcomings, and how to use it to widen personal agency rather than lose it.
The Craft of Language: Unlocking AI Agency in an Adversarial Age
Why precise language is the key to directing AI well, in an age where algorithms reward conflict and adversarial thinking shapes politics and feeds.
How AI Superintelligence Nudges Human Behaviour: Preserving Agency in 2025
Inspired by Eric Schmidt’s insights, an essay on how increasingly capable AI may coordinate human behaviour, and how to keep our agency.