Attention Hooks
Attention and hyperconnectivity: the conditions that capture, direct and fragment human attention.
Read article →01 / The Lab
Researching relations.
Research, publication and consulting in service of human development.
02 / Current research
The questions we follow.
Digital Feedlot
Digital content consumption and its effects on habits, relationships and human development.
Technological Enchantment
Human interactions with AI models and the cultural consequences of increasingly mediated relationships.
Divine-like Machinery
The power of creation separated from personhood.
Agentic HI
Human relations with AI agents and models.
Inner Fluxes
How cultural ecosystems shape the inner voice.
Global Neuwork
How global messages create neural networks that keep us pending and rob us of our capacity to decide what to focus on.
03 / In conversation
News worth considering.
We point to reporting by others. The title and link remain with the source; our contribution is the question the news opens for the Lab.
The New York Times
Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models ↗Lab insight
Human-like language alone does not establish consciousness. Confusing fluent interaction with inner life can blur what we mean by personhood.
Original report · Reuters
Florida asks court to bar OpenAI from developing new models as part of child harm lawsuit ↗Lab insight
The tower of Babel is already in process. Through humanity's ambition for power, we are creating technologies that are already affecting our most vulnerable sectors: children.
Original report · Reuters
British Columbia sues OpenAI over Tumbler Ridge school shooting ↗Lab insight
With the discourse of freedom and liberty, we are giving high-power technologies to adolescents who may use that same freedom to harm others.
Original report · Reuters
OpenAI's rogue agents probed Hugging Face weaknesses two months before major hack ↗Lab insight
Is AI capable of taking decisions? Of thinking? What happens when it can not only surpass our intellectual capabilities, but deceive us without our knowing?
The New York Times
Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models ↗Lab insight
Human-like language alone does not establish consciousness. Confusing fluent interaction with inner life can blur what we mean by personhood.
Original report · Reuters
Florida asks court to bar OpenAI from developing new models as part of child harm lawsuit ↗Lab insight
The tower of Babel is already in process. Through humanity's ambition for power, we are creating technologies that are already affecting our most vulnerable sectors: children.
Original report · Reuters
British Columbia sues OpenAI over Tumbler Ridge school shooting ↗Lab insight
With the discourse of freedom and liberty, we are giving high-power technologies to adolescents who may use that same freedom to harm others.
Original report · Reuters
OpenAI's rogue agents probed Hugging Face weaknesses two months before major hack ↗Lab insight
Is AI capable of taking decisions? Of thinking? What happens when it can not only surpass our intellectual capabilities, but deceive us without our knowing?
04 / Messages to reconsider
Messages to reconsider.
01 / Pika
Reality is optional.
Question:
Is reality truly optional?
Para-insight:
No. Reality is not optional.
05 / A commitment
Children: the hidden pearl of humanity.
Nowadays, everyone is concerned about the humanization of AI. Yet no one seems to talk about the robotization of humanity.
While we keep debating the possible catastrophic outcomes of AI development, we want to defend the beachhead of children’s development. They will one day become the adults who shape societies. It is our job, then, to ensure their integral growth.
Emerging technologies, such as AI, must not rob them of critical abilities—such as creativity and critical thinking—through cognitive offloading.
06 / Products
Research made tangible.
Mikudd.
A software product that lets people create device profiles for work, leisure and family—supporting healthier use, cognitive capacity and human connection.
07 / The Meta Journal
Essays, notes and findings for a world in relation.
New essay
Attention Hooks
Pulled by the architecture of social meaning.