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AI for Gen Z
What digital technology is doing to our brains, our future, and the generation coming of age inside it.
A generation is coming of age inside a technology nobody has finished understanding.
I research what happens to cognition, identity, agency, and beliefs about minds when a generation grows up inside conversational AI. The work runs through 150+ conversations, a book, and a research report in progress.
- Now
- Chief of Staff at New Sapience, a deterministic-AI company founded by veterans of DARPA, NASA, and the NSA.
- Research
- The First AI-Native Generation. A report, policy brief, and framework on how sustained interaction with conversational AI affects development. November 2026.
- Book
- AI for Gen Z. What digital technology is doing to our brains, our future, and the generation coming of age inside it.
- Podcast
- 150+ conversations with researchers, scientists, and philosophers, including Karl Friston and Avi Loeb.
- Building
- The Center for Innovating the Future, a Toronto strategy innovation lab, and Co-Existing with AI, the interview series behind the report.
- Based
- Montreal. English and French.
Current Work
The First AI-Native Generation
A research program on how sustained interaction with conversational AI affects cognition, identity, agency, and beliefs about minds. Report, policy brief, and framework.
Co-Existing with AI
The interview series behind the report. Long-form conversations with AI researchers, founders, policymakers, and skeptics, transcribed and coded. Eleven researchers to date, thirty by the end of 2026.
The Transcendence of Technology
On technology, what it was always for, and why the answer was never external.
The Ayush Prakash Podcast
150+ long-form conversations with researchers, scientists, and philosophers. Episodes feed directly into published work.
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