3.2 - The Attention Crisis, Part 2: The Architecture
From oracle to ally, why AGI as an arbiter of truth fails, and how Augmented Human Intelligence strengthens judgment instead of replacing it.
Part two of the audio edition of The Attention Crisis turns from diagnosis to design. It examines why building AGI as an oracle of truth fails, the illusion of the perfect filter, the capture problem, the complacency risk, and the wrong goal entirely, and lays out the alternative: Augmented Human Intelligence. The episode covers AHI’s three defining characteristics, five design principles, what AHI looks like in practice, a civil engineering framework for evaluating information systems, and the stakes for democracy and shared reality. It closes with responses to five common objections, from “isn’t AGI inevitable?” to “isn’t this just a fancy recommender system?”
This is the audio edition of The Attention Crisis: Language, Meaning, and the Architecture of Augmented Human Intelligence, a whitepaper from Architecture & Attention, presented in two parts. Read the full whitepaper, explore the companion papers, and subscribe at jamesmaconochie.com.
Originally published on Substack.
