There's a different class of AI now. It doesn’t entertain, simplify, expedite, problem-solve, or do work for us in a conventional sense. Its purpose is to assess, monitor and manage aspects of human thought, emotion, and behavior. We’re outsourcing self-awareness, self-knowledge, and self-agency.

My year-end/new year summary of thoughts and insights about the human mind—how it differs from the brain and the criticality of bringing to bear more sophisticated understandings of the mind to machine cognition.

We are crossing a threshold. Prosthetic intelligence and autonomous agents acting for and on behalf of us and themselves represents a different order of involvement in human affairs.