The Crowd Around Us
Intelligence is no longer arriving through one door.
For a while, AI felt like a destination: you opened a tool, asked a question, and left. That model is disappearing. Intelligence is being embedded into the software we already use, often quietly, sometimes invisibly.
The result is not one relationship with AI, but many overlapping ones. Some are useful because they understand the platform. Others matter because they understand the broader context of our work.
This week’s cover looks at what happens when intelligence stops being a tool and becomes an environment.