A City Should Know What Its Buildings Are Made Of
What if buildings were a city’s future parts store? Material passports can expose reusable components—but only if timing, trust, labour and liability are designed too.
Synthetic Users Are Hypotheses, Not Participants
AI personas can widen a design team’s hypotheses, but fluent simulation is not lived evidence. Compare synthetic predictions with real observations before using them to decide.
Let Citizens Draft the First Version of the Law
AI can help citizens turn lived problems into testable public proposals. The challenge is preserving evidence, equal rights, contestation and democratic authority.
An AI Memory Should Come with an Expiry Date
Persistent AI memory saves repetition but can preserve stale assumptions. Build a Memory Boundary Card to govern purpose, source, correction and expiry.
The Help Desk Is a Sensor, Not a Cost Centre
Support demand is not merely overhead. Repeated calls, abandoned forms and unnecessary visits can reveal defects that transaction dashboards never see.
Do Not Make Human–AI Agreement the Goal
Human–AI agreement can hide anchoring or stubbornness. A better workflow preserves both provisional views, examines divergence and records why judgement changed.
Your Backup Needs a Second Reader
A backup can preserve every byte and still fail the person who needs it. A small recovery rehearsal reveals missing permissions, unreadable formats and knowledge trapped in one person's head.
From Reading to Doing: Alkemata’s Capsule Experiment
Alkemata proposes portable capsules that combine ideas, evidence and practical workflows, helping readers use their own LLMs to build projects and return experience to shared knowledge.
The Asylum Interview Is Not a Chatbot
Digital tools can prepare and document asylum interviews, but trained humans must hear consequential accounts, manage ambiguity and remain answerable for credibility judgments.
Status Is a Promise, Not a Coloured Dot
A truthful case tracker shows what happened, who holds responsibility, what the person must do next, the deadline and how to challenge an incorrect state.