Why recommendations now?
The choices we make around AI can begin to settle the architecture of the future before we have fully explored what we want from it. These recommendations invite a wider conversation about the words we use, the relationships we cultivate, and the properties we want an ecosystem to support.
They are offered by Daveed Benjamin through a Meta-Layer lens, with no expectations of adoption. Pro Human-Nature-AI is a proposed direction, held lightly: a durable, non-dominating relationship that supports the flourishing and autonomy of humans, the living world, and other intelligences.
Explore the words.
Open the semantic space around “pro,” “human,” and “AI.” Consider what changes when the relationship becomes the focus.
Read and discuss →Recommendation 02Define the North Star.
A 4–6 week collaborative process to explore the Desirable Properties of a Pro Human-Nature-AI ecosystem.
Read and discuss →Use Canopi on each recommendation to contribute questions, examples, objections, or alternative framings.