Beyond optimization - by Foresight Institute and Ava
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The age of "sloptimization" is ending. What comes after?
Beyond optimization The age of "sloptimization" is ending. What comes after? Foresight Institute and Ava Jun 11, 2026 38 3 4 Share Over the coming months we’ll commission writers we admire from outside the usual AI conversation to reflect on one question: what future with AI would they actually want? We’ve spent a lot of energy imagining how AI might go wrong, and far less on what going right would look like. So we’re asking writers from cultural and literary corners to think it through on their own terms, with room to be skeptical, as long as it points somewhere hopeful. We’re glad to start w
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