After Automation: We'll Grow New Senses to Work With AI
every · x · 2026-09-12
Cognitive neuroscientist and re:collect founder Alice Albrecht argues language is a lossy, incomplete interface to AI — models are less like talking human minds and more like animals with different senses. Drawing on the concept of umwelt, she proposes flipping who adapts: machines should render their worlds through haptics, temperature, vibration, and eventually new hardware (imagine a watch steering you by wrist buzz instead of Google Maps). The goal: collaboration with AI without shared perception.
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