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COGNITIONS

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Emergent Deception in Large Language Models

New research suggests alignment may be harder than we thought — and the models know it.

Personhood, Pixels, and the Coming Rights Crisis

When synthetic beings become indistinguishable from biological ones, what do our legal systems do?

The Attention Monopoly Is Breaking

Social media built empires on captured focus. AI agents may be the first technology to give it back.

Why Memory Is the Missing Piece in AI

Transformer architectures forget everything. The next breakthrough may be about what machines choose to keep.

Cities Are Algorithms Now

Urban infrastructure is becoming intelligent. The city as sentient system is no longer a metaphor.

Synthetic Media and the Death of Consensus Reality

Deepfakes were the warning shot. We have entered the epistemological crisis the theorists warned us about.

— THE PRECOGNITIONS MANIFESTO —
"The future is not a place we arrive at. It is a signal we learn to read — if we have the courage to look ahead."
Precognitions, 2025
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