Chris Perry

Thirty years in the room where new technology meets unready people. The technology works. The people aren't ready. Nobody budgets for that.

Author, Perspective Agents

A Human Guide to the Autonomous Age. Fast Company Press, 2024. Written pre-ChatGPT.

cperry@anduslabs.com press@anduslabs.com speaking@anduslabs.com

A trilogy of stories

01.

Authorship Watch

Somewhere around draft three, I stopped being the person writing this. Two archetypes emerge from what happened next. One outsources thinking. The other uses the machine to see what he couldn't see alone.

02.

Our Third Option

Doom says give up. Utopia says sit back. A father used AI to open 10 research labs for his dying son. The third option changes the person who chooses it.

03.

Human OS for AI

$300 billion spent on AI. 75% of programs fail. The bottleneck isn't technology. It's the people who have to use it.

Patterns observed, shorter form (2023–2026)

Borrowed Time, Part 1 Borrowed Time, Part 2 The Prediction Economy Generative as the Way Forward Tools for Thinking

ChatGPT is Quietly Rewiring Your Brain The AI Supernova Expensive Shelfware The Uncanny Valley of Brand Trust The Meaning of Photoshop

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