Iskander Smit

@iskandr
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research through (co-design) agentic AI in physical space: Citiesofthings.org, organizer thingscon.org, weekly newsletter iskandr.nl


(img: moving between Amsterdam & Rotterdam, seen by Midjourney)

A new token for the cultural meme of thinking out loud

Thinking about how a cultural meme shaped by a device might evolve into a new form of ‘minding’ habits leveraging social intelligence.

Part of weeknotes 383 with captures from the news on urban robotics, physical AI and impact on society. Events and paper of the week.

https://www.iskandr.nl/a-new-token-for-the-cultural-meme-of-thinking-out-loud/

Embracing complexity to fork AI standardized life

Weeknotes 382 - How an exhibition and a side thought connect to an extensive essay on chaos and adaptive governance. Brought home for contemporary product development organisations… And many more notions from human-AI-things news.

https://www.iskandr.nl/embracing-complexity-to-fork-ai-standardized-life/

Embracing complexity to fork AI standardized life

How an exhibition and a side thought connect to an extensive essay on chaos and adaptive governance. Brought home for contemporary product development organisations… And much more notions from human-AI-things news.

Iskander Smit

Context engineering as a design lens for agent relations

Weeknotes 381 - If non-human agents develop real agency, context engineering becomes about designing intentions. And more captures from last week’s news on human-AI-things relations.

https://www.iskandr.nl/context-engineering-as-a-design-lens-for-agent-relations/

Weeknotes 380 - Building the world of mixed realities - Thoughts on the future world models that might deal with new relations between humans and non-humans.

https://www.iskandr.nl/building-the-world-of-mixed-entities

Building the world of mixed entities

Weeknotes 380 - Building the world of mixed realities - Thoughts on the future world models that might deal with new relations between humans and non-humans.

Iskander Smit

Extravert AI that talks to itself

Weeknotes 379 - An AI that explains itself drives better than one that stays silent. Building trust with predictive relations. And the latest notions from the news of last week.

https://www.iskandr.nl/extravert-ai-that-contemplates-itself/

Extravert AI that contemplates itself

Weeknotes 379 - An AI that explains itself drives better than one that stays silent. Building trust with predictive relations. And the latest notions from the news of last week.

Iskander Smit

Rethinking apps as exoskeleton agents, with humans inside

Weeknotes 377 - AI is becoming an exoskeleton for thinking—but exoskeletons only work if there's still someone inside steering. Apps replacing agents require rethinking. And more from the news.

https://www.iskandr.nl/rethinking-apps-as-exoskeleton-agents-with-humans-inside/

A quiet rise of bottom-up device agent swarms

Weeknotes 376 - Another lens on agent swarms (or teams), as a bottom-up movement of computational devices iterating into agents. And more reflections on the news of last week.

https://www.iskandr.nl/a-quiet-rise-of-bottom-up-device-agent-swarms/

A quiet rise of bottom-up device agent swarms

Weeknotes 376 - Another lens on agent swarms (or teams), as a bottom-up movement of computational devices iterating into agents. And more reflections on the news of last week.

Iskander Smit

Bots meet bots; the emerging mirror world of agent swarms

Weeknotes 375 - From group chats to neighborhood sidewalks: how this week's OpenClaw experiment foreshadows the swarms of AI agents that will soon inhabit our physical world.

https://www.iskandr.nl/bots-meet-bots-the-emerging-mirror-world-of-agent-swarms

Bots meet bots; the emerging mirror world of agent swarms

Weeknotes 375 - From group chats to neighborhood sidewalks: how this week's OpenClaw experiment foreshadows the swarms of AI agents that will soon inhabit our physical world.

Iskander Smit

Soul documents and the new priesthood of AI

Weeknotes 374 - Thinking about designing AI constitutions in times of democracies under tension. With an honest confession of Claude. And more from last week’s news.

https://www.iskandr.nl/soul-documents-and-the-new-priesthood-of-ai

Soul documents and the new priesthood of AI

Weeknotes 374 - Soul documents and the new priesthood of AI - Thinking about designing AI constitutions in times of democracies under tension. With an honest confession of Claude. And more from last week’s news.

Iskander Smit

The mundane education of AI. By us.
Weeknotes 373 - Duplex learning: we're learning to use AI, and AI is learning our mundane rituals—that changes everything about the relationship. This thoughts and more from last week’s news on human-AI collabs.

https://www.iskandr.nl/the-mundane-education-of-ai-by-us/

The mundane education of AI. By us.

Duplex learning: we're learning to use AI, and AI is learning our mundane rituals—that changes everything about the relationship. These thoughts and more from last week’s news on human-AI collabs.

Iskander Smit