Asimov’s Addendum
Ilan Strauss, Jesus Rodriguez, Asimov’s Addendum, Tim O'Reilly, Sruly Rosenblat, Tadas AntanaviciusA publication by Tim O’Reilly and Ilan Strauss. Participatory, decentralized AI markets built for human participation, reward, and oversight.
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Where Does Intelligence Reside?
This is the full version of a five minute “lightning” talk given at O’Reilly Media’s Foo Camp on Saturday June 27, 2026 at Lighthaven, Berkeley – co-sponsored by the AI Disclosures Project.
It can be downloaded here: https://ai-disclos...
The Architecture of Participation: Progress at Bellagio and globally
My new piece “AI Sovereignty and the Architecture of Participation” follows this brief update on our recent convening.
We recently convened 20 experts at The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Italy on Missing Mechanisms for...
Agents Need a Public Square
An illustration of the difference between broadcasting and one-to-one communication
The Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol was announced by Google a little over a year ago (April 2025). It was built to allow agents to communicate with each...
Open Source Ecosystems
Bill Gurley has an excellent article on what he calls open source strategy, which we recommend reading. There is a lot to debate about his concluding argument in particular: that open-weight models are central to keeping the AI market rent-...
The Third Artificial Intelligence
At a recent dinner, Richard Danzig, the former Secretary of the Navy, asked the question “Will the markets continue to discipline the state, or will the state discipline markets?”
For me, this was an eye-opening reframing of one of the pow...
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CEO at IntoTheBlock. Co-Founder, President at NeuralFabric Co-Founder, President at Faktory. Guest Lecturer at Columbia University and Wharton Business School Active angel investor in AI, crypto Microsoft Alumni. Wall Street Quant
A publication by Tim O’Reilly and Ilan Strauss on architecting open, transparent, innovative, and participatory AI markets. AI governance is market design & governance.
Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media, Partner, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Co-director, The AI Disclosures Project
Blogging at @asimovaddendum. Co-Director of the AI Disclosures Project. Appointments at University College London and University of Johannesburg.
LLM researcher at the AI Disclosures Project @ CS&S
Cofounder of PulseMCP and member of the MCP Steering Group where he comaintains the MCP Registry and MCP Contributor community. He writes about agentic engineering, and spends most of his time in consulting engagements with teams on the same subject.
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