Phi / AI is a writer-led online magazine exploring AI through a humanistic lens. We ask deeper questions about intelligence, ethics, and the future, offering interdisciplinary, long-form essays.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 48 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 9 days ago |
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In the Messiness Between Words: Can AI Preserve the Presence of Psychotherapy?
There’s been a lot of discussion about whether AI will replace therapists. As a trainee therapist, every fibre of my being believes that genuine human connection cannot be replaced. But what is this belief based on?
Like many I am sure, wh...
Off the pedestal, into the world
“Does simulated water make you wet?”
I hear someone scoff during a discussion about machine intelligence and consciousness.
After all, computational processes are just simulations, right? They’re not the real world.
And yet, one after t...
Predictor and picker – convergent architectural features of intelligent agents
Did you know that LLMs do not work by selecting the most probable next word? What they do instead is predict the probabilities of many possible next words, and then pick one of them with a randomness function. That mechanism – token samplin...
We are all born trees. Not cyborgs
Trent McConaghy dropped this line, inside a broader transhumanist pitch at Computational Consciousness1, the gathering the California Institute for Machine Consciousness (CIMC) held in Berlin last month. I was in the audience.
I sat there...
The Meeting Socrates Missed
I’ve just begun reading the Phaedrus. I’m looking at it now.
Two men have wandered beyond the walls of Athens and are wading up the Ilissus, barefoot, hunting shade. Socrates finds his perch and praises it at length: the plane tree spreadi...
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Karin is the founding editor of ΦAI. A writer and strategist, she works at the intersection of AI, product, and philosophy—creating tools, workshops, and publications that help people understand and shape the future of technology.
A trainee psychotherapist, navigating a life in applied AI.
I take pictures and make music, occasionally write stuff too. All content I share belong to me, pls do not reproduce without my expressed consent.
I am a researcher working at the intersection of AI ethics, responsible AI and AI skills, fascinated by the concept of intelligence, whether natural, artificial, collective, emergent or otherwise.
Writing on cyberecology, animism and AI, intentional community building, solarpunk and the development of the more-than-human web of life 🌱✨
Originally a psychedelic researcher and founder in AI-assisted drug discovery, now embarking on a quest to bring AIs closer to humans.
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