A historical collection of our writing.
As the application layer of AI takes off, the big question is bubbling of what happens to our aggregated data that becomes our personal source of truth. Who owns it? Who controls it? How is it accessed, stored, and protected? At the individual level, we think of this as memory. But at the […] Read more
Grace CarneyThis blog is co-authored with Zoe Weinberg and Matt Hawes at ex/ante , and is a follow-up to our first blog post on the topic, ‘ You don’t own your memory .’ We need an open architecture that puts us in control of our memories while making their exploitation technically impossible. But how will this […] Read more
Grace CarneyThis blog is co-authored with ex/ante . Who will own our digital memory ? This question has become increasingly urgent as ChatGPT and Claude ask us to entrust more and more of our memories to their platforms. Frontier AI models have already ingested the world’s public knowledge, but their […] Read more
Matt MandelOne of the most exciting trends in energy is the rise of programmable power. Energy devices have become increasingly software-controllable. Developers can now build large virtual energy systems out of many small decentralized assets. We’ve been investing across the programmable power stack from […] Read more
Matt MandelThe Information Age was a consequence of two developments: the ability to work with information programmatically and the democratization of that capability. We are now entering a similar period in biology. We can program life itself with the ever cheaper tools of synthetic biology. We believe this […] Read more
In the last two Philosophy Mondays we first defined what values are and then posed the question of a basis for values . The key requirements for such a basis is that it has to be objective so that it can be universal, i.e. apply to all humans. This will be the subject of today’s […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
