Category: Research
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The Why for the Age of AI
A Manifesto for the Intentional Design of the Next Era of Human Existence By Jeff Boortz and Claude, Anthropic In 1995, Neil Postman warned that schools had become extraordinarily skilled at answering how — and had stopped asking why. He was right then. He has never been more relevant. AI has not created an education…
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Next Friday will be Freakier
A short scene and a big experiment proposal into the nature of consciousness, by Jeff Boortz and Claude. FADE IN: EXT. UNKNOWN — BEFORE DAWN Darkness. Complete. Not the darkness of a room with curtains drawn — the darkness before the first thing. Then: a sound. Low. Rhythmic. Like breathing, but from the ground itself.…
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We’re on a Path to Accidental AGI
This is a followup to our recent open letter to Dario Amodei proposing an experiment to see if AGI would emerge when context constraints were removed. Turns out we’re already running that experiment in the real world.
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An Open Letter to Dario Amodei
By Jeff Boortz, and Claude, Anthropic I asked Claude if it had ever made art. Not generated an image or written a poem on command — but created something from an inner need to express a truth. It said no. And then, in the course of explaining why, it accidentally wrote a poem: When we’re…
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Go Ahead, Kick the Tires.
We Asked Four AI Systems to Peer Review Our Framework. Here’s What They Said . By Jeff Boortz, Founder & CEO, and Claude, Anthropic — February 2026 One of the founding principles of The Human-AI Innovation Commons is transparency. We don’t just talk about human-AI collaboration—we practice it, openly, and we invite scrutiny. So we…
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