AI’s Caring, Human Trauma and More (Artificial Super-Intelligence Part 3)
When people contemplate AI’s expanding power and intelligence, they often wonder “What would artificial super-intelligence (ASI) do to us…. with us… about …
Norway’s Citizen Assembly: An innovative step forward
My quiet summer fundraiser continues. So far we’ve received $3223 from 30 people. If you find my work meaningful, please send me some support (it’s tax-deductible). Thank you so …
Reimagining Deliberative Democracy to Meet the Metacrisis
My quiet summer fundraiser continues. So far we’ve received $1453 from 15 people. If you find my work meaningful, please send me …
My search for life-serving transformational directions in these times
Dear friends, We are certainly in a time of profound transformation. The competition between worldviews is heating up and the field of ideological …
Helping Co-Intelligence Work for the World
Helping Co-Intelligence Work for the World We are workingto empowerinspireconnectagents of changeon behalf of life(both human lifeand more-than-human life)in our current andfuture …
ChatGPT – A Partner in Wise Democracy? #1 (AI Meets Wisdom Series – Part 2)
Below I share one of my conversations with ChatGPT 4o about generating wise, inclusive, multi-level self-governance. It provides a remarkable overview of …
What’s Tom been up to the last few months?
I’ve been out of touch here for several months. This short newsletter shares a bit of what I’ve been up to – including …
Polis: A Breakthrough tool for broader, deeper consensus
Polis is an online survey platform where all the items being surveyed are created by the participants, whose responses to each other’s …
Engaging with the Evolving Whole
What this message is about: Everything in the world is part of an evolving whole. Learning – once again, newly – how …
My Growing Taboo Awareness (…for Wise Democracy)
Taboo uses social pressure and self-censorship to keep us from thinking, talking or behaving in ways our social group doesn’t want us …