In September of last year, I spoke with Evan Ratliff , the journalist and host of Shell Game about what it might be like to live in a...| Charley Johnson
In response to the election, many pointed their finger at the young, male swing to the right to explain Trump’s victory. In 2016 we had...| Charley Johnson
The newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) aims to drastically cut the U.S. federal budget and workforce. Just this...| Charley Johnson
Let's generate 'cold media,' shall we? In “Fragment the media! Embrace the shards!” I argued that we need to shift in seeing ourselves...| Charley Johnson
Crypto is having its moment in the sun following the election of President Trump. Across the board, crypto-backed candidates won Senate...| Charley Johnson
For this election, think less about our ‘shared reality’ and more about information integrity The U.S’s pursuit of a multiracial...| Charley Johnson
When I wrote “ How do we work our way towards utopia? ” a question kept ringing in my head: ‘uh, what about the economic system we...| Charley Johnson
I’ve expressed concern about our over-reliance on direct, authoritative responses from chatbots. There’s no space to go back and forth...| Charley Johnson
In the summer of 1956, a group of 47 AI pioneers were invited to Dartmouth College to discuss the future of AI. All were men. All were...| Charley Johnson
Marshall McLuhan famously argued that the medium matters more than the content it carries: the medium is the message. E.g. TV has made...| Charley Johnson
…and it will misrepresent your personality to your friends and family. Enjoy! AI chatbots are being used by people to chat with synthetic...| Charley Johnson
Come, human. Ensconce yourself in the fine swaddling robes of rational perfectionism I’ve written a lot of words about how we...| Charley Johnson
Imagine if Uber built its driver network by offering drivers ‘Uber Tokens.’ Imagine further that these tokens functioned like equity,...| Charley Johnson
Should AI be open or closed? This is one of the most confusing debates raging in AI discourse at the moment. Those pursuing ‘open’ models...| Charley Johnson
Internet users, brace for the emergence of E-Swift In May of 2022, I tried to look around the corner and imagine the future of social...| Charley Johnson
Come with me on a journey through ordered and unordered systems I ’ve written about the false promise of emergence , and why AI doomers...| Charley Johnson
A while ago I wrote an Untangled piece called The Artificial Gaze , where I asked what society would be ‘optimized’ for if it was one big...| Charley Johnson
August 9th marked the nine-year anniversary of when police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black...| Charley Johnson
Imagine if society — for all its messy, entangled, complexity — were one big algorithmic system: what would it be optimized for? What are...| Charley Johnson
Apparently AI systems will continue to improve forever — but is that even possible? If you’ve only got a minute this Sunday, here’s the...| Charley Johnson
Sociotechnical Systems Change in Practice is a live, online, interactive, four-part course that offers a new approach for how we -- as individuals and diverse collectives — can transform power dynamics in the systems we’re in, and chart new sociotechnical futures.| Charley Johnson