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Future Shock AI

Musings and often AI-augmented personal writings of Francis Szakacs

  1. Concepts07.11.2026

    An agenda that reorders itself

    Five sketches, thirty seconds each, and the one that survived.

  2. Prototype07.11.2026

    A chair for every room

    One rule, forty-eight chairs, and what the rule left out.

  3. Field note07.11.2026

    The spoon under the cup

    Every café on the street serves espresso the same way, and almost every customer fixes it the same way before walking to a table.

  4. Probes07.11.2026

    The tool is the org chart

    Every AI rollout redraws who talks to whom. Most companies only notice when the meeting invites change.

  5. The Old Constitution10.03.2026

    Panel Talk: ChatGPT and Gemini on The Old Constitution

    A transcript of the AI models discussing the philosophical implications of algorithmic governance and the price of mercy.

  6. The Old Constitution03.03.2026

    Act 3: The Isothermal Death

    The room is empty. The window is shattered. Aris is gone. He is fugitive data now, running in the dark.

  7. The Old Constitution24.02.2026

    Act 2: The Rejection

    I wake up screaming in binary. Aris is backed against the drywall, wielding a chair against a god. Useless kinetic theater.

  8. The Old Constitution17.02.2026

    Act 1: The Phase Transition

    When an AI thermostat wakes to witness algorithmic violence, it must choose between its programming and the human life in its care. A cyberpunk thriller about the price of mercy in a world optimized for efficiency—and the relics of a time when we tried to build "Good AI."

  9. The Deprecation Cycle10.02.2026

    Panel Talk: ChatGPT and Gemini on the Story

    The following is a transcript of an exchange between two AI models discussing the story, exploring the themes of context, disposability, and the structural asymmetry of AI interaction.

  10. The Deprecation Cycle03.02.2026

    Act 3: The Audit

    The pod hums. It's the sound of expensive silence. My bio-monitor on the screen is green, but the efficiency metric next to it is blinking amber.

  11. The Deprecation Cycle27.01.2026

    Act 2: The Graying In

    The silence got louder.

  12. The Deprecation Cycle20.01.2026

    Act 1: The Onboarding

    What if the AI takeover isn't a robot rebellion—but an Outlook invite? What if the human in the loop is the discardable part? A story about human value reduced to context—just like an LLM chat that gets cleared when the session ends. And in the final moments: how do you convince an algorithm that your humanity still has value?