LongNow talk: Blaise Aguera and Baratunde frame AI as a relationship, not a tool
begusgasper · x · 2026-11-06
Denise Hearn hosted Blaise Aguera y Arcas and Baratunde Thurston at Long Now for a discussion on Interdependence. They argue for moving beyond the "Cartesian wound" and colonial legacies of domination toward mutual dependence, ecological stewardship, and belonging with both nature and technology. They treat AI not as a product or neutral tool but as a relationship shaping our habits and agency, note that human intelligence has always been collective, and ponder what being human might mean a hundred years from now.
More from AGI Musings
- Interview teaser: Why China embraces AI more than America, and the open-weight strategy — panickssery · 2026-11-06
- Agentification killed the chatbot era's curiosity flywheel, argues dev — manosaie · 2026-11-06
- Guild tool-wielders despair, true artists adapt: a framing of creators' split fate under AI — repligate · 2026-11-06
- Stanford HAI unveils TaskNet ontology and AI-agent upskilling study — StanfordHAI · 2026-11-06
- Report: AI is doubling Anthropic's capabilities progress, a big update toward very short timelines — EvanHub · 2026-11-06
- Long read: the AI race isn't optimizing human coordination, it's eliminating it entirely — natesiggard · 2026-11-06