Kitchen Table
Philosophy

An independent essay series on persistent AI

The machine is already at the table.

The question is not whether artificial intelligence enters ordinary life. It is what role we let it acquire once it gets there.

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The Kitchen Table Philosophy

A persistent AI will acquire a social role in the household that uses it. Ordinary use will decide that role unless somebody deliberately names and designs it first.

By Aaron Lauer 12 minute read

The household test: after an interaction, is the person more connected to the people around them, or less?

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Identity Is Infrastructure

Capability tells you what a model can do. It does not tell the model what its role is for. The next essay opens the machinery: role, responsibilities, memory boundaries, voice, correction, and the reasons a durable identity needs all five.

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