Path:OS

Greek root, systems logic, a way forward.

Path:OS is a civic capacity-building practice. It looks closely at how systems behave, at what it takes to change them, and puts that thinking in the open.

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Curated Intelligence

For seven years, a procurement decision kept returning to the same question: who should build the software a state runs on, and where should its data live. On what sovereignty means when the tools of statecraft are made elsewhere.

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Summits of Convenience

One week in June, Geneva boarded up its storefronts for seven governments meeting behind a cordon. A few kilometres away, weeks later, 193 governments met in the open to begin governing AI. Two meetings, two ideas of who governance is for.

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The Superorganism and the Machine

A siphonophore survives because no part of it keeps for itself what the whole produces. AI is giving conservation something it has lacked: time. But the tools, and the data, are pooling where the wildlife is not. On what the machine makes possible, and who is equipped to use it.

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