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.
Selected writing below.
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.
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.
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.