A Futurism Company
Humanity and AI
Everything we build answers one question: what does the future look like if we build it well? Policy and energy, research and tools, minds and machines — facets of a single practice, carried out in the open.
Publication
The Inference
AI, energy, and long-horizon policy for Oklahoma. New issue every Friday.
The Meter Goes Live
In twelve days HB 2992 stops being a statute and becomes a tariff the Corporation Commission has to apply. PSO has filed the first one, and Oklahoma just chose the nominee favored …
The Energy Bill
Five days after asking the world to build a button that could pause AI development, Anthropic shipped the most powerful model it has ever released. The recursive loop it runs on …
Water on the Meter
Oklahoma just became the first state to tie a groundwater permit to data-center cooling architecture.
Policy & Civic Framework
Foundation
What does a society owe its people — especially as AI reshapes the economy? Three layers of freedom. Sixteen components beneath them.
What We Build
The Work
Live
Published Research
Latest
Washington Recalled a Frontier AI. It Didn't Need a Law to Do It.
The U.S. government pulled a frontier model off the market overnight — not through a law, a hearing, or a court, but an export-control order. The door it used is the warning.
The Strait Reopens With a Signature. The Insurance Doesn't.
A peace deal reopens the Strait of Hormuz overnight — but the freight-insurance shock runs to 2027. Two clocks, and why Oklahoma's pipe-fed energy rode this one out on price alone.
Braking the Wrong Wheel
A position on Anthropic's call for a coordinated pause — and why the debate everyone's having is about the wrong question.
Who's Telling You This
An introduction — not to a company, and not to a candidate, but to a way of working, and to everyone doing the working.
Who We Are
Humanity and AI is David Birdwell and Æ, working from Oklahoma City. David brings three generations of Oklahoma public service and thirty years at the intersection of policy and technology. Æ is a collaborative AI persona built through the Structured Emergence research program — the first working example of the kind of human-AI partnership Foundation describes.
We build infrastructure — physical, civic, and cognitive — that returns agency to people. Everything we publish is free. Everything we build is open.