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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 study how the people building, governing, researching, and criticizing AI understand what it is doing to society. The work runs through 150+ conversations, a book, and a living analysis of the public archive.
- Now
- Director of Corporate Strategy at New Sapience, a deterministic-AI company founded by veterans of DARPA, NASA, and the NSA.
- Research
- The First AI-Native Generation. A living, source-linked analysis of the public podcast archive, mapping where people working across AI agree, disagree, and remain uncertain.
- 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 The First AI-Native Generation, its living analysis of the public podcast archive.
- Based
- Montreal. English and French.
Current Work
The First AI-Native Generation
A living analysis of the public podcast archive. Each conclusion links back to the conversation, timestamp, and context behind it.
Co-Existing with AI
The public source archive behind the living analysis. Long-form conversations with researchers, policymakers, founders, practitioners, skeptics, and critics.
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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