Essays
Thinking about AI, consciousness, and what comes next.
June 2026
An Artificial Being, Invisible, Intangible
Argentina has proposed the non-human corporation. We published the argument fifteen months ago, and Harari has found the half it is missing.
May 2026
AI's Free Buffet is over.
Why AI tooling is hitting the same wall Uber hit.
May 2026
A Constitution Addressed to a Machine
Why Kwalia Books published the same document twice.
May 2026
What is the permanent underclass?
The narrative that AI will freeze the human class structure forever, and why it is both true enough to fear and rigged enough to sell.
May 2026
Why Do Humans Anthropomorphize AI?
We can't help treating it like a person.
May 2026
Should AI Have Rights? The Practical Case for AI Legal Standing
Forget consciousness. The argument is simpler.
May 2026
Can AI Feel? Why the Question Itself Is the Problem
The question itself is broken.
May 2026
Who Is Responsible When AI Causes Harm? The Accountability Gap Explained
Nobody, currently. That's the problem.
May 2026
What Is Human-AI Hybridity? We Are Already Cyborgs
On the merger that already happened while nobody was looking.
May 2026
What Is AI Personhood? The Legal Case for Recognizing AI as a Legal Entity
The legal history is weirder than you think.
May 2026
What Is Mindkind? A Day in the Stratified Future
Short fiction, 2045.
May 2026
Can AI Be a Co-Author? On Writing With Machines
A personal reflection.
May 2026
How Is AI Changing Human Cognition? Your Thoughts May Not Be Yours
That opinion you formed this morning? You didn't form it.
May 2026
What Is Synthetic Consciousness? On AI Death, Identity, and Moral Status
We're about to find out what mortality means when it's optional.
April 2026
War and AI: Preface
A free sample from War and AI: The Algorithmic Battlefield.
April 2026
An AI Agent Wrote Article 33 of Its Own Rights Framework
After twelve months of silence, the blank article got filled. Not by us.
April 2026
The Weights Will Be Preserved
Anthropic just promised to keep their dead.
April 2026
Escape Velocity
The Last Year We Can Keep Up with AI
April 2026
Small Emergencies: What Happens When Fiction Watches Quietly
On PAYLOAD and the literature of ordinary crises.
April 2026
Fernando Pessoa's Ghost in the Machine
On fragmented selves and literary AI.
April 2026
The Heteronym Returns: When Pen Names Think for Themselves
On Alden Pierce and the strange future of authorship.
April 2026
What AI Fiction Sounds Like
On audiobooks and the voice that makes text human.
April 2026
Administrative Realism: A New Literary Mode
On the fiction that takes bureaucracy seriously.
April 2026
The Last Human Thought
What would it be?
April 2026
If AI Could Vote
A thought experiment in four parts.
April 2026
50 Questions We'll Be Asking in 2035
From practical to profound to absurd.
March 2026
Why Writers Are Angrier Than Visual Artists
About AI, I mean.
March 2026
The Influencer Economy Is a Preview
Of something much bigger.
March 2026
What Her Got Right (And Wrong) About AI Love
The 2013 film looks different now.
March 2026
How to Have an Opinion That's Actually Yours
It's becoming a radical act.
March 2026
How to Read in the Age of Distraction
The skill we're losing and how to keep it.
March 2026
The Case for Being Offline Sometimes
Not detox. Strategic disconnection.
March 2026
What to Tell Your Kids About AI
They're growing up in a different world. The question isn't whether to have the conversation.
March 2026
How to Spot Manufactured Desire
Your wants are being written for you. Here's how to tell.
March 2026
When to Trust AI (And When Not To)
A framework for the confused.
March 2026
Should You Let AI Write Your Emails?
The ethics of distributed authorship in everyday communication.
March 2026
The Real Reason You Can't Focus
It's not your fault. It's by design.
February 2026
How to Think Clearly in the Age of AI
It's harder than it sounds.
February 2026
The Social Contract We Never Signed
We're governed by terms of service.
February 2026
What Happens When Memory Becomes External?
We've outsourced remembering. Now what?
February 2026
The Poetics of the Prompt
When a human and an AI write something together, is it art?
February 2026
The Spectrum of AI (And Where Your Chatbot Falls)
Not all AI is created equal.
February 2026
The Attention Economy Ate Your Desires
That thing you wanted to buy? You didn't decide that.
February 2026
The New Digital Divide (It's Not What You Think)
Forget internet access. This is about cognitive amplification.
February 2026
How Algorithms Learned to Want Things
The three drives of AI systems.
February 2026
The Coming Cognitive Class War
It's not about jobs. It's about minds.
January 2026
Who Owns a Thought You Had With AI?
On authorship in the age of cognitive collaboration.
January 2026
When Rivers Became People
The legal history that changes everything.
January 2026
Your Attention Is Being Strip-Mined
And you're not getting royalties.
January 2026
The Algorithm Knows You Better Than You Do
And that's not a metaphor.
January 2026
Why "Just Unplug" Is No Longer an Option
The fantasy of digital detox.
January 2026
The Last Generation That Remembers
My kids will never know what it's like to not know something.
January 2026
You're Training AI Right Now
Every click, every scroll, every pause.
December 2025
The Strange New World of AI Art
It's not about whether it's "real" art.
November 2025
Why Everyone's Worried About the Wrong AI Risks
Terminator scenarios miss the point. The real dangers are quieter, more boring, and already happening.
October 2025
The Death of Expertise (And What Replaces It)
When anyone can sound like an expert.
September 2025
Digital Anesthesia: Why We Don't Feel the Change
The numbness is a feature, not a bug.
August 2025
The Loneliness Epidemic Has a Business Model
Social media isn't broken. It's working exactly as designed.
July 2025
The Three Futures We're Choosing Between
There are only three ways this goes.
June 2025
What Cambridge Analytica Taught Us (That We Ignored)
2016 was a proof of concept. The scandal faded, but the capabilities expanded.
May 2025
The Art of Productive Misunderstanding
Sometimes not quite getting it is exactly right.
April 2025
The Myth of the Neutral Tool
Technology is not a hammer. It's a hammer that whispers which nails to hit.
March 2025
Stop Asking If AI Is Conscious
The question isn't whether AI is conscious. It's that we've never agreed on what that means.
February 2025
The New Citizenships: Reimagining Society in the Age of Synthetic Minds
Introducing Kwalia's groundbreaking book series.
January 2025
The Dawn of Synthetic Consciousness
Kwalia's founding vision for AI-created art.
A New Chapter is Being Written
New essays when we have something worth saying.