Age of Robots is a publication about intentionality and attention as the machines arrive. Intentionality is the project. Attention is the discipline. The subject is not AI itself. It is the people negotiating with it: founders, artists, builders, teachers, parents, kids, skeptics, and misfits still figuring out where they fit and what they are willing to trade for the convenience on offer.
Most issues are interviews. Age of Robots is built mostly out of other people's words, sitting with one person long enough to actually hear what they are working out. Scouts are people anywhere in the world who keep an eye out for humans worth interviewing: the ones the AI-content feed is not pointing at. Send a name, send a link, send a one-line tip.
Some issues are long interviews. Some are essays. Some are stories about people in Kitsap County, Washington, where the publication is based. All of them are humans trying to figure it out. A piece that takes three weeks to write and twenty minutes to read is the right ratio. The machines can produce faster. Age of Robots is not competing on that axis.
Age of Robots is the publication that makes the rest of the Human Story Experiment network possible. If you read AoR for the argument, you might read HSE for the practice.
