Five decades of intellectual history. Four eras. One continuous lineage from the founding work of cybernetics and intelligence augmentation to the contemporary articulation of Hi-Centric AI as a working discipline.
Engelbart's Augmentation Research Center; the Xerox PARC tradition; the rise of human-computer interaction as a field. Computation comes to be understood as something built around human work rather than something that replaces it.
Read →HCI matures into an empirical discipline. Distributed cognition, situated action, the network era. Computation becomes integrated into human practice across medicine, finance, science, and law — without yet being framed as a discipline of intelligence augmentation.
Read →Deep learning emerges and quickly dominates. Two parallel research programs form: autonomous AI pursuing model performance and human-centered AI pursuing principled design. The intellectual ground for Hi-Centric AI matures even as the discipline itself remains unarticulated.
Read →Hi-Centric AI is articulated as a discipline of methodology, philosophy, and applied practice — extending the older lineage into the contemporary moment. The discipline is offered as something to be inherited and extended.
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