Benjamin Bratton unveils Agentworld, Antikythera's research initiative on hybrid human-AI societies
bratton · x · 2026-10-12
Benjamin Bratton introduced Agentworld, Antikythera's new research initiative exploring hybrid human-AI societies, alongside Poliks' Superdark Factory project on software production beyond the human loop. Bratton: 'There are certain times in history when our technological capabilities are ahead of our ideas and ahead of our concepts.' Slides from the talk include lines like 'This is the least weird day of the rest of your life' and 'More a crisis of subjectivity than agency, but once they are conflated, we try to solve the former with the latter.'
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