The Agentic Economy Has No Black Box
Where the agentic economy breaks down, and the civic infrastructure we still lack to hold autonomous AI accountable as it scales.
Journalism
Reporting and commentary on AI, technology and culture.
Patrick’s journalism for Fast Company, The Guardian, The Independent and Superintelligence examines how new technology reshapes work, culture and public life.
Selected journalism
What happens when the AIs turn on each other?
A competitive AI era is coming, where autonomous bots increasingly contend with one another across markets, media and daily life.
Data culture #1: back to (data) basics
Why the arts sector’s data ambitions rest less on one grand database than on getting the simplest foundations right.
The Rise of the Omnibots
Chatbots are growing up. A look at the age of the omnibot, where brands stop being interfaces and start becoming beings in their own right.
Chekhov: The Truth of Life Spat Out with Elegance
A literary appreciation of Chekhov: mortality, style and the unflinching elegance with which he turned a dying man’s world into enduring art.
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