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Creative futuresEssay

sleep little machine

i gave my data center protest sign a lullaby.

Kris KrügOct 8 · 5 min read

Creative futuresEssay

Futureproof: Year One

Three days at the first Futureproof Festival of AI in Vancouver. Old friends, new builders, difficult questions, and what I’m taking into year two.

Kris KrügNov 1 · 14 min read

Creative futuresField report

I Made Claude Paint My Portrait in MS Paint. No Scripts.

Four sessions, a hand mixed palette, and one rule: brushes and clicking only. No scripting the canvas. The failures taught me more than the finished picture did.

Kris KrügSep 27 · 4 min read

Intelligent machinesBrief

A robot demo needs a failure log

LeRobot's evaluation and rollout tools suggest a useful community experiment: keep the unsuccessful attempts.

The editorial deskNov 6 · 1 min read

The living internetEssay

You Can’t Rent a Social Licence

Students brought pots and pans to the Nest. Canada’s AI ambitions need something harder to buy: a social licence, earned with the people expected to live with the rollout.

Kris KrügNov 2 · 14 min read