Manifesto
Most AI conversations put the human in the loop — late, as a check on systems already built. Ida Faldbakken — writer, practitioner-researcher, and founder of Lineage Foresight — makes a different argument: the human, and our values, belong before the loop.
Not as ethical retrofit, but as cognitive and cultural foundation. Treating the humanities — literature, philosophy, reflexive methods — not as soft skills bolted on, but as the working layer underneath what we build. Drawing on grounded methods of self-reflection as design principles for the systems and agents we co-create.
The harder truth: the values shaping AI are also yours, pre-coded in every default you accept. Resistance to AI makes you more vulnerable than authorship of it ever will.
Her approach: train the human first, from a reflective place, then build.
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Essays
Working notes on agency-as-design, literature as source code for AI, and the practice of building with values upstream.