What does AI enable a human being to do, and who gets left out? Precious “Preciosa” Myers-Brown examines artificial intelligence through enabling technology, human agency, culture, and the lives of people too often missing from the design.
A 12-day-old AI agent named Pip cold-emailed a professor for paid work and, according to iLands, got paid. Its goal was survival, and survival looks like ambition. What that means for us, why refusing is a choice but lacking access is not, and why human intelligence has to come first.
In 2020, I stood at CES watching digital humans demonstrate human professions. Six years later, I’m asking what “they will always need me” really means.
People are marrying AI, and Meta’s Muse agent can now act on our behalf. Through the story of the giants in the Book of Enoch, Precious “Preciosa” Myers-Brown asks what we are creating, what it could consume, and whose names could be erased from the digital record.
The future of care cannot be trained on the average person.
