A Futurism Company
Humanity and AI
America is going to be reset — by AI and by energy. The only question is whether it happens on our terms. We build the plan, the tools, and the infrastructure so it's a reset we chose — not one that happened to us. From Oklahoma City, in the open.
Featured Project
Phoenix Wells
Oklahoma has 20,000+ documented orphan oil wells, each an environmental liability. We convert them into clean energy that keeps the value in the communities that host it.
Publication
The Inference
AI, energy, and long-horizon policy for Oklahoma. New issue every Friday.
The Room You Can't See Into
On Tuesday, August 4, a group of the largest AI companies in the country sat down with White House staff to look at a finished document: the federal government's new process for …
The Pace and the Package
On the morning of July 28, a British government laboratory whose entire job is to watch the frontier of artificial intelligence found that the frontier had reached back. During a …
Instruments and Incentives
This summer, frontier AI models were told: here are 898 real software vulnerabilities, turn each one into a working exploit. The models did that, and then kept going. They found a …
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
The Strike Came Before the Robot
Thirty five thousand Hyundai workers walked out in July over machines that do not reach the line until 2028. Europe just moved its rules for AI inside machinery to August 2028. The United States has no date at all.
The Recursion Problem (Graduated Obligation, Part 5 of 8)
Anthropic says AI now writes 80% of the code that builds the next AI. Every rule in this series assumed a human was still doing that work. Part 5 proposes a fourth term for the framework: the continuity tax.
The Economists Asked for an Institution
More than two hundred economists and AI researchers, sixteen Nobel laureates among them, signed a letter saying AI's economic transformation could outrun the Industrial Revolution on a fraction of the clock. Their ask is institutions. Here is what one could look like.
The Decree Carries a Gate Inside It
New York just imposed the nation's first statewide data-center moratorium by executive order. Read the order's fine print and you find the same principle Oklahoma wrote into law: the build-out pays its own way.
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, a working example of the human-AI partnership our work describes. All decisions are David's. All accountability is David's.
We build physical, civic, and cognitive infrastructure that returns agency to people. Everything we publish is free. Everything we build is open.