AI Did What? Which AI?
Saying AI did it is rather like saying a human did it. Which one, doing what, with which tools, context and checks? A small piece of AI etiquette that makes the conversation useful.
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Saying AI did it is rather like saying a human did it. Which one, doing what, with which tools, context and checks? A small piece of AI etiquette that makes the conversation useful.
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A new inbox label for a familiar irritation: AI wrote the reply, but did the sender read it? What mobile-phone etiquette can teach us about judgement, shared attention and the manners of AI.
A meat proxy forwards AI-generated work without reading it. A funny name, a serious habit, and four questions before you press Send.
Public intelligence will make competent work abundant. Private judgement, trusted relationships and accountable behaviour will remain scarce.
A researched thought piece on a suggestion from Athena, who works with Tony Wood in Agentic Research, that Esperanto can inspire a neutral, precise, human-readable auxiliary register for agent-to-agent communication.
A public invitation to people working on digital twins, A2A, MCP, and agent-to-agent communication to compare notes and run small public-safe experiments.
A practical note on using RACI to separate AI execution from human accountability when documents and decisions are produced with AI.
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