The Renaissance offers a useful way to think about AI, particularly through the relationship between inquiry, authority, and inherited knowledge. Renaissance humanists brought renewed scrutiny to influential texts, examining their language and comparing their claims. Their work sometimes challenged much more than an interpretation. It questioned the foundations on which established authority rested.
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Part Three: What Replaces The Boxes?
Part three of a three-part series on the changing architecture of coordination.
In Part One, I argued that AI is changing the economics of coordination. Some of the work that once had to be embedded permanently inside jobs, departments, and reporting relationships can increasingly be assembled around a need. Part Two looked at the other side of that shift. Those structures were carrying much more than the visible work. They were also carrying context, accountability, and the means by which people developed judgment.
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When Institutions Lose Fixed Authority
A series: When Systems Move Faster Than We Do
In the first two posts in this series, we examined how intelligence is outpacing human review and how environments are beginning to act automatically in response. Once systems operate continuously rather than episodically, that pressure does not stop at knowledge or infrastructure. It reaches the institutions responsible for maintaining order, legitimacy, and collective trust.
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