The new inflationary era of generative AI.

We are entering the new inflationary era of generative artificial intelligence. From machine-generated text to synthetic images to autonomous agents, the cultural and strategic horizon opened up by the development of artificial intelligence is now generative in nature (no longer just extractive and predictive). This is an epochal, not episodic, shift in our civilization towards new paradigms of production, organization, and communication. We will explore these new "uncanny" (both sexy and risky) valleys between philosophy, engineering, economics, and the world.