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Demonic Intelligence: When Optimization Makes Humans Expendable

June 15, 2021

My illustration entitled: "The Human Cost of Perfection" — A magnificent machine produces flawless golden spheres while quietly sweeping human figures into a dark pit beneath its assembly line. Demonic...

Public Procurement for Public Authorship: Buying Capability, Not Permanent Dependence

May 14, 2021

Opinion, Visual Arts

Public contracts should deliver useful services while preserving the knowledge, resources and authority needed to decide what comes next. My illustration entitled: "The Golden Key and the Locked Machin...

Sovereignty Through Support: Why Dependence Need Not Mean Domination

April 12, 2021

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Healer of Worlds" - A transhuman with bionic legs, genetically adapted skin and multiple organic arms kneels in a damaged landscape. Their hands and coordinated machines resto...

Unceded Intelligence: Delegating Tasks Without Surrendering Authority

February 16, 2021

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Sword Returned" - A towering mechanical knight kneels before a human, presenting its sword hilt-first. Its immense capability is offered for a purpose the human chooses. ...

The Enhancement Outlives Its Maker: Who Owes the Human Continued Support?

November 12, 2020

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Keeper of a Thousand Years" - An ageless transhuman stands inside an immense, weathered observatory. Their subtly enhanced body contrasts with centuries of surrounding archite...

Change Without Collapse: Reauthorism and the Continuity of Essential Services

September 16, 2020

Opinion, Visual Arts

Meaningful public authority requires both a practical capacity to revise essential systems and dependable protection for the people who rely on them. My illustration entitled: "The Aqueduct and the New...

Who Decides Which Bodies Are Allowed?

July 10, 2020

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Cathedral of Possible Bodies" - A transhuman stands in a monumental circular hall surrounded by suspended, translucent representations of possible embodiments: winged, aquatic...

Two Dark Paths of Artificial Intelligence: Demonic Intelligence and Satanic Intelligence

June 14, 2020

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Two Thrones" — Two dark intelligences rule a ruined city: one sits on a throne of metrics and machinery, the other on a throne of promises, contracts, and puppeteering threads...

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