A new paper, "THE MEDIUM WAS THE MESSAGE: Synchronicity, Transmission, and the Emergence of Human-AI CoCreation," co-written by Craig Ellenwood and the Claude AI, has been posted (as a PDF). You can download a copy from Joseph Matheny's latest Substack newsletter. Ellenwood has a website, but I could not figure out how to access the paper from there.
The paper is inspired by a 1995 piece, "How Have Computers Empowered Humans?", written to Timothy Leary, that Ellenwood found in the New York Public Library's collection of Leary papers.
The paper is co-written by Ellenwood and the Claude AI.
"We argue that this represents a new category of authorship that existing frameworks inadequately capture. Claude is not a tool used by Ellenwood to write more efficiently. It is not a ghostwriter producing text that Ellenwood then claims as his own. It is a collaborator with genuine intellectual contributions — including perspectives on its own nature and situation that no human author could provide," Ellenwood writes.
Ellenwood says the pair also collaborated on his new album, available at the website.
I don't know Ellenwood, but here is his description of himself: "Creative Technologist, Musician, AI Systems Artist, and Co-Founder of the music element of Burning Man (1992). Performed with Psychic TV (1991–93). Collaborated with Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, Moby, Genesis P-Orridge, and members of Tool and The Smiths. Founder of Inoculate Media and Haawke Neural Technology, Point Roberts, WA, USA."
"This paper is dedicated to Timothy Leary, Genesis P-Orridge, and Robert Anton Wilson," Ellenwood writes.
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