AI, Technology & Culture
Treating technology not as novelty, but as recurring pattern
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Alan Eyzaguirre writes philosophical essays on AI, technology, and culture—situating contemporary artificial intelligence within long historical, artistic, and architectural contexts. His work treats AI not as alien phenomenon, but as the latest expression of humanity's recursive ambition to externalize thought.
By connecting silicon architectures to cathedrals, Renaissance patronage systems, and Detroit's assembly lines, he reframes the 'AI revolution' as part of a deeper cultural feedback loop—one that continually redefines what it means to think, build, and last.
Twenty years in product leadership at Apple, Cisco, PayPal, and RingCentral provided the technical literacy. At Apple, he built Keynote and iWork. At Cisco, he authored the Responsible AI framework. At PayPal, he built analyst relations from zero. But the persistent questions are philosophical: How do machines alter perception and meaning-making? What can AI not record—human temporality, permanence, symbolic depth?
His speaking brings the fluency of an insider with the distance of a critic—arguing that what we call 'disruption' is often systemic inertia revealing itself. The work balances humanistic awe with quiet skepticism toward spectacle and accelerationist rhetoric.
Not alien phenomenon, but humanity's latest attempt to externalize thought. From Renaissance perspective systems to silicon architectures—why the pattern persists and what it reveals about permanence, memory, and meaning in the digital condition.
When machines handle analysis, interpretation becomes the human layer. How AI reshapes not just execution but perception itself—and what remains when reasoning commoditizes.
What we call 'disruption' is often systemic inertia revealing itself. Historical patterns from Detroit's assembly lines to today's foundation models—why innovation emerges from infrastructure, not heroes.
The Pantheon's oculus. Brunelleschi's perspective. Es Devlin's installations. What built structures teach us about designing systems that last—and what AI cannot record about human temporality and symbolic depth.
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