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linkedin.com · via Mille Bojer
Eight practitioner principles from a 3-day transformative scenarios workshop with 36 participants. AI handled synthesis and pattern-finding in the background; humans kept full ownership, presence, and creative source-hood. The key move: AI outputs are inputs to human judgment, never final products — and because the work isn't attributed to a person, participants hold it more lightly and push back more freely.
AI-only planning caught 0% of novel risks; human+AI review caught 86.7%. Concrete evidence that collaborative verification beats solo AI.
oneusefulthing.org · via Ethan Mollick
A P&G field experiment where AI behaves like a teammate, not a tool — individuals with AI matched whole teams and silos softened. Multiplayer AI, measured.
a16z.com · via Andreessen Horowitz
The thesis that 2026 is when agents leave single-player mode and the collaboration layer becomes the moat.
cutlefish.substack.com · via John Cutler
Cutler's sharpest take on the theme: AI's value depends on whether it supports multiplayer collaboration or accelerates single-player isolation. Uses 4E cognition and stigmergy — shared context and trace-based coordination compounding into collective capability.
cutlefish.substack.com · via John Cutler
AI can reproduce the artifacts of glue work while quietly removing the connective human labour that made a team actually function. A warning about automating away the multiplayer layer.
cutlefish.substack.com · via John Cutler
Context is not a transferable input you merge into understanding — teams enact it through interaction. The single-player fantasy of "just give the AI all the context" misses distributed cognition.
ignorance.ai · via Charlie Guo
Nearly every AI tool is single-player: one human, one conversation, no shared context. Maps what changes when agents join the group instead of sitting in a private chat.
The technical reasons AI apps default to single-player — and what persistent, shared state would take to make them genuinely collaborative.
newsletter.aroundthebonfire.com · via Kevan Lee
A crisp framing of the single-player to multiplayer shift in how teams actually adopt AI together.