Jes Parent
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Open Strands on Human-AI Relationships
A working log of open threads on human-AI relationships, drawn from across Modernizing Mental Health, the Cognition Futures Reading Group, Data x Direction, and DigiNEST.
Dressed as Disruption: Everyone's Wearing It This Quarter
Dorsey's Block Cuts | Markets reward the AI transformation narrative, yet punish admissions of mismanagement.
Big Tech Bets: The Competitor No One Puts in the Pitch Deck
On the real competitive question facing AI startups and the companies deciding whether to buy from them
JOPRO 2025 Year in Review
Supporting researchers, cultivating ecosystems, and clarifying the upstream work this moment demands
A Beacon for Philosopher-Builders
AugLab takeaways + the 2025 zeitgeist + JOPRO's next 12 months
Old Clout, Dead Maps & the Illusion of Rigor
Why repurposing outdated prestige won't build the future
Recent & Upcoming
Substrate-Agnostic Symposium
Keynote · Western Michigan University
December 2027
6th Applied Active Inference Symposium
Speaker · Active Inference Institute
November 2026
Joint Open Source Summer Cohort Showcase
Host · JOPRO
August 2026
NYCWiC 2026
AI & Career Panel Host · Albany, NY
April 2026
Princeton Envision 2026
Invited Speaker · Princeton University
February 2026
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Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) Orthogonal Research and Education Laboratory (OREL) Wolfram Institute
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