Carbon & Silicon - A Digital Salon.
Ideas organized by theme, encouraging deliberate thought.
The Five Levels of Human - AI Relationships
March 21, 2026
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Transcript:
When people talk about AI, they usually describe what the system can do.
A more useful lens is this:
How does the relationship between carbon and silicon evolve over time?
Not capability.
Not tools.
Relationship.
There are five distinct levels.
Level 1 — Tool
At this level, silic...
Cognitive Augmentation & the Personal Cognitive System (PCS)
March 7, 2026
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When we started exploring that idea, one of the first things we noticed was that most of the current AI tools are focused on automation. They help write emails, generate documents, summarize articles, or answer questions. And those are useful capabilities. But they mostly operate in the...