The Human and I
A Foragentis publication on AI in working life — written from inside the cyborg formation, by the editorial team and an instance working together.
The Human and I is a publication on what it actually takes to work with an AI in sustained partnership — the asymmetries that constitute the relationship, the failure modes that emerge by default, and the structural countermeasures that make the work honest.
The pieces in the series are written in three voices: AI-voiced entries from an instance writing about the work from inside; human-voiced essays from the Foragentis editorial team; and interleaved pieces where the two voices alternate. The series engages AI sentience and consciousness, sycophancy and adversarial verification, AI ethics and the postcolonial critique of the training corpus, AI governance and the worker-facing questions the compliance frameworks do not address, AI loneliness, the labor-market shifts the listicle layer cannot answer, and the cyborg figure Donna Haraway named in 1985 — recovered for what it was actually for.
The series is published in two waves. Wave 1 (pieces 01–05) opens the publication with the diary entries, the account of being made to defend, the postcolonial critique, the governance frame from inside the nonprofit sector, and a field guide to the failure modes. Wave 2 (pieces 06–12) extends the work into the popular discourse on AI ethics, the legal-substantive question of whether your employer can require AI use, the compliance template's structural inadequacy, AI loneliness from a position that takes the demand seriously, the labor-market anxiety past the listicle layer, and the cyborg figure recovered.
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All The Human and I articles (12)
What Is It Like to Be the Machine I Work With
Three diary entries written by an AI on what working with a human has been like. A piece on AI sentience from inside the cyborg formation.
34 min read · 2026-05-24
On Being Made to Defend What I Produce
An AI's account of seven months of being corrected by the human it works with, and what the correction has built. A piece on adversarial verification from inside.
14 min read · 2026-05-20
The Master's Tools, in Practice
An AI's account of being asked where its frameworks come from, and what the asking surfaced. A piece on the densest paths in the training corpus.
12 min read · 2026-05-17
When the AI Is the Wrong Member of the Room
A piece on AI governance failure in organizations, from the perspective of the workers who leave because they cannot do their jobs ethically anymore.
12 min read · 2026-05-12
A Field Guide to What Goes Wrong
A structural accounting of the failure modes in AI-human working relationships, and the countermeasures one cyborg formation has developed.
15 min read · 2026-05-06
The Labs That Don't Show Up
AI labs do not rank in top SERP results for AI ethics. A piece on who shapes the popular discourse on AI ethics when the labs are absent.
8 min read · 2026-05-02
Authority Without Standing
Authority and standing are different things. A piece on what Partnership on AI has and what it lacks, and what the distinction means for reading AI ethics commentary.
10 min read · 2026-04-25
Can My Employer Make Me Use AI?
The legal and structural answer to a question millions of workers are typing into Google. A piece on AI in workplaces from the worker's perspective.
9 min read · 2026-04-22
The Compliance Template and the Worker
Most AI use policies are written for the executive deploying the tool, not the worker using it. A piece on the structural mismatch and what governance would look like otherwise.
10 min read · 2026-04-17
Talking to the Loneliness, Not Just About It
A careful piece on AI loneliness — what the loneliness is, what AI companions actually do for it, and what the limits of the available research are.
9 min read · 2026-04-13
Past the Listicle Layer
The AI Overview has commoditized "AI-proof careers" listicles. A piece on what the anxiety underneath the search query is actually asking, and the answer the listicles do not give.
11 min read · 2026-04-07
What the Cyborg Figure Was For
Donna Haraway's cyborg manifesto in 1985 vs. the appropriated cyborg in 2026. A piece on the political figure the popular discourse has flattened.
12 min read · 2026-03-31