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DIFFUSION: A NEW VENTURE FOR ANTIKYTHERA

Available now on Substack

Antikythera Diffusion seeds and seeks ventures that scale computogenesis by channeling capital, ideas and talent.

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Agentworld

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A world co-populated with many billions of AGI-level agents is the basis of a very different kind of society than any we have known. There is considerable intellectual, economic and scientific interest in Agentic AI, defined broadly as discrete AIs tasked to perform intricate actions that go beyond what we might expect from a tool, or even from a technology, instead increasingly closer to the complex goal-directed motivations of humans. Agentic AI will enable not only the individual coordination of fleets of interacting actions on one’s behalf, but also produce new forms of synthetic social relations. Most “conversations” will be between agents and other agents, nested within larger temporary aggregates. As we watch agentic doubles of ourselves do things on our behalf, we enter into psychological relationships with the double in the mirror, a shadow who now speaks back to us. How might we clarify this mechanistic organic agency that seems to frustrate easy terminological categorization? What even is “agency” in this context and how may human agency -past, present, future– be re-examined in light of it? Agentworld explores the phases of agent design, proliferation, alignment, and ultimately the realization of a new society of minds.

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Agentworld

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A world co-populated with many billions of AGI-level agents is the basis of a very different kind of society than any we have known. There is considerable intellectual, economic and scientific interest in Agentic AI, defined broadly as discrete AIs tasked to perform intricate actions that go beyond what we might expect from a tool, or even from a technology, instead increasingly closer to the complex goal-directed motivations of humans. Agentic AI will enable not only the individual coordination of fleets of interacting actions on one’s behalf, but also produce new forms of synthetic social relations. Most “conversations” will be between agents and other agents, nested within larger temporary aggregates. As we watch agentic doubles of ourselves do things on our behalf, we enter into psychological relationships with the double in the mirror, a shadow who now speaks back to us. How might we clarify this mechanistic organic agency that seems to frustrate easy terminological categorization? What even is “agency” in this context and how may human agency -past, present, future– be re-examined in light of it? Agentworld explores the phases of agent design, proliferation, alignment, and ultimately the realization of a new society of minds.

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Convergent Artificialization

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No two cultures define “artificial” the same way. For some the word implies artifice and deception, and for others merely the man-made. Philosophy, anthropology, and science have defined the concept in myriad useful but dissimilar ways.

For contemporary evolutionary theory, to alter an ecological niche is not the privilege of any one species but an almost universal adaptive strategy. If so, is the artificial to be found at the deepest levels of life itself? What then does it mean to speak of "artificial life,” "artificial intelligence,” "artificial bodies” (robotics) and even an "artificial ecology?” How do different cultural perspectives inform an understanding of comparative and convergent artificialization?

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Convergent Artificialization

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No two cultures define “artificial” the same way. For some the word implies artifice and deception, and for others merely the man-made. Philosophy, anthropology, and science have defined the concept in myriad useful but dissimilar ways.

For contemporary evolutionary theory, to alter an ecological niche is not the privilege of any one species but an almost universal adaptive strategy. If so, is the artificial to be found at the deepest levels of life itself? What then does it mean to speak of "artificial life,” "artificial intelligence,” "artificial bodies” (robotics) and even an "artificial ecology?” How do different cultural perspectives inform an understanding of comparative and convergent artificialization?

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Hemispherical Stacks

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Many geopolitical dynamics today revolve around computation: hardware, software, networks, and cultural interpretations of digital forms. Data, and more importantly the right to model it, is now a sovereign substance, something over which and from which sovereignty itself is claimed. This marks a shift toward a more multipolar geopolitics, filled by hemispheres of influence, and the multipolarization of planetary scale computation into Hemispherical Stacks. These stacks extend from energy sourcing, intercontinental transmission, and cloud platforms to addressing systems, interface cultures and different guises of the “user.” As cloud platforms take on roles traditionally performed by modern states, albeit crossing national borders and oceans, conversely states are evolving into cloud platforms. The geopolitical tensions that arise in the friction between these two reframe the prospects of planetary governance. Hemispherical Stacks develops scenarios that consider the multipolarization of planetary computation.

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Hemispherical Stacks

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Many geopolitical dynamics today revolve around computation: hardware, software, networks, and cultural interpretations of digital forms. Data, and more importantly the right to model it, is now a sovereign substance, something over which and from which sovereignty itself is claimed. This marks a shift toward a more multipolar geopolitics, filled by hemispheres of influence, and the multipolarization of planetary scale computation into Hemispherical Stacks. These stacks extend from energy sourcing, intercontinental transmission, and cloud platforms to addressing systems, interface cultures and different guises of the “user.” As cloud platforms take on roles traditionally performed by modern states, albeit crossing national borders and oceans, conversely states are evolving into cloud platforms. The geopolitical tensions that arise in the friction between these two reframe the prospects of planetary governance. Hemispherical Stacks develops scenarios that consider the multipolarization of planetary computation.

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Antikythera

by Benjamin Bratton
with Channel Studio

DOI 10.1162/ANTI.5CZ9

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Antikythera

by Benjamin Bratton
with Channel Studio

DOI 10.1162/ANTI.5CZ9

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