“Machines scale knowledge; humans preserve wisdom. Intelligence, therefore, is not automation but awareness: the capacity to reflect, adapt, and ethically co-create new systems of understanding.” - Story Systems and Cultural Research (Routledge)

A lot of the conversation around AI still feels too narrow to me. We keep treating disruption as if it is mainly about tools getting better or jobs getting automated, when the deeper shift is really about institutional legitimacy. Consulting, higher education, and other knowledge systems were built on the idea that expertise was scarce, gated, and easy to certify. That story is starting to come apart. A lot of what Marie Lena Tupot and I explore in Story Systems and Cultural Research is ...