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Essays, conversations, and research on human agency, imagination, relationships, and life with AI.
When AI Finishes Your Thoughts, What Happens to Them?
Aug 2, 2026
Why You Can’t “Just Do It”: The Intention-Action Gap with Dr. Tom Froese #90
Mar 27, 2026
What Will It Be Like When AI Becomes Second Nature?
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When AI Finishes Your Thoughts, What Happens to Them?
When assistance supports thinking—and when it takes over capacities we need to develop.
Grant Hilary Brenner
How to Think About AI Without Splitting into Doom or Hype
A tuning stance for thinking amid uncertainty and polarized reactions to AI.
Grant Hilary Brenner
More Us Than It: Why LLMs Are More Transference Than Machine
Projection, person-like interfaces, and the distinctions we bring to AI relationships.
Grant Hilary Brenner
What Happens When We Simultaneously Seek and Avoid Intimacy?
The tension between connection and self-protection in ordinary human relationships.
Grant Hilary Brenner
Must Creativity Necessarily Come at the Price of Misery?
Curiosity, agency, and flourishing as conditions for creative work.
Grant Hilary Brenner
Doorknob Comments5 resources
Why You Can’t “Just Do It”: The Intention-Action Gap with Dr. Tom Froese #90
Why intention does not translate automatically into action, and what uncertainty and friction contribute to human development.
Grant Brenner and Fara White; guest Tom Froese
Engineering Body and Mind with Michael Levin #82
Developmental biology, engineering, and philosophy of mind meet in a conversation about how bodies and minds take shape.
Grant Brenner and Fara White; guest Michael Levin
Would You Rather Have An AI or a Human Therapist? #79
Empathy, loneliness, and the ethical questions raised when AI enters relationships of care.
Grant Brenner and Fara White; guest Nir Eisikovits
Neuropsychoanalysis, Revisiting Freud, and Living Well: A Conversation with Dr. Mark Solms #78
Emotion, subjective experience, and the possibility of artificial consciousness, explored through neuroscience and psychoanalysis.
Grant Brenner and Fara White; guest Mark Solms
Active Inference, the Free Energy Principle, and Therapy #70
How minds revise beliefs, navigate uncertainty, and make sense of the world—with a discussion of consciousness and AI.
Grant Brenner and Fara White; guest Karl Friston
Published papers2 resources
Navigating AI in Mental Health Care and Psychotherapy: Proposing the GUIDE Framework
A proposed framework for discussing patients’ AI use during mental health care.
Grant H Brenner, Timothy Gutwald, Jacqueline Ourman, Rachel Wood
Is it time for AI to take a leading role in mass trauma mental health response?
Opportunities and risks for AI in disaster mental health response.
Grant H. Brenner, Sander Koyfman, Rahul Mehendale
Working papers · Zenodo4 resources
What Will It Be Like When AI Becomes Second Nature?
Ambient AI, human purpose, permission, correction, and the freedom to refuse.
Grant H. Brenner
Tuning at the Hyperinterface: Interactive AI, Human Differentiation, and Maintaining Human Sovereignty
Preserving meaningful choice and the ability to pause or leave AI interaction.
Grant H. Brenner
Operational Psyche: Toward Development and Relational Causality in Human–AI Systems
A conceptual account of development and relational causality in human–AI systems.
Grant H. Brenner
AI as Scalable Developmental Object
AI as a possible catalyst for thinking and development across human settings.
Grant H. Brenner
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