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SXSW 2026: cognitive darwAInism, AI Slop, the Hidden AI Tax, and a Futurist Coming Home

SXSW 2026: cognitive darwAInism, AI Slop, the Hidden AI Tax, and a Futurist Coming Home

This is a thoughtful piece by Danny Devriendt. Thank you, my friend. 🙏 Brian Solis is far from a neutral observer in my SXSW story; he’s a friend I’ve known for a long time, and one of the people who helped me -and a whole generation- see the social web for what it really was back in the day. Long before social media became a relentless ad machine, he wrote The Social Media Manifesto, arguing that this wasn’t a new…

Economia: E você, importa? SXSW discute ‘o que sobrará’ dos humanos na era da IA

Economia: E você, importa? SXSW discute ‘o que sobrará’ dos humanos na era da IA

Via Economia, Renato Pezzotti Os assuntos sobre os avanços da inteligência artificial foram tratados de forma transversal no SXSW deste ano, que aconteceu nesta semana, nos Estados Unidos. O antropólogo digital Brian Solis reforçou que líderes precisam deixar de usar a IA apenas para “automatizar o passado” e pensar em como as novas ferramentas devem ser utilizadas para redesenhar o trabalho que só humanos podem fazer: ter sua inteligência “aumentada”, construída com empatia, curiosidade e criatividade.

Augmented IQ and the New Human Advantage

Augmented IQ and the New Human Advantage

I lost a fight with the sidewalk the night before my talk at SXSW. Not exactly the kind of opening line you script for your first SXSW keynote in seven years, but there I was in Austin, cut-up but grateful and energized to be back on that stage talking about something that matters more than most leaders realize right now. The talk was called “Augmented IQ: Scaling Human + AI Potential.” It built on a simple but urgent thesis: the…

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