1. “OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy says it will take a decade before AI agents actually work”
In a refreshingly sober assessment, Karpathy dismantles the “year of the agent” hype, arguing that current autonomous systems lack the multimodal intelligence, continual learning, and robustness to become true collaborators—and may even undermine human expertise if rushed.
“aiming for agents that replace humans risks making humans obsolete” (businessinsider.com)
2. “Holes in the web: Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too”
Deepak Varuvel Dennison exposes the epistemic blind spots in GenAI’s training data, tracing how Western, English‐language dominance in digital archives amplifies colonial knowledge hierarchies—and urges designers to confront what it means to build AI on incomplete histories.
“GenAI risks contributing to the erasure of systems of understanding that have evolved over centuries” (aeon.co)
3. “Apple’s decade-long journey to spatial computing. A design retrospective”
Areous Ahmad maps the subtle through-lines in Apple’s product evolution—from ARKit to glassmorphic interfaces—that prepared users for Vision Pro long before the headset existed, revealing patient design as the ultimate innovation strategy.
“How Apple spent a decade preparing users for spatial computing through deliberate design evolution” (medium.com)
4. “Perfect AI Mimicry and the Epistemology of Consciousness: A Solipsistic Dilemma”
Shurui Li’s philosophical treatise confronts the “perfect mimic” scenario—an AI indistinguishable from humans in behavior—and argues that unless we revise our criteria for attributing consciousness, we risk epistemic solipsism or arbitrary double standards.
“the perfect mimic thus acts as an epistemic mirror, forcing critical reflection on the assumptions underlying intersubjective recognition” (arxiv.org)
5. “Can AI design a typeface?”
Jack Cousins interviews Monotype’s Charles Nix on the 2025 Type Trends report, exploring how variable fonts, kinetic lettering, and now AI tools are reshaping typography from static backgrounds to dynamic, brand-defining systems.
“Monotype’s latest report takes a dramatic pivot by interrogating how AI is not just a tool but a collaborator in creative typography” (transformmagazine.net)