Everyone asks what superintelligence will do. I want to know what living alongside it will do to us.
AI is reshaping everything we know about life, relationships, and the future of humanity. I explore it in two ways: through fiction, in my novel The Superiors, and through essays, in Coexist With.
How do you live with beings smarter than you who want things of their own?
The Superiors envisions a new therapeutic discipline, focused on the relationships between people and superintelligent entities. It is told through the eyes of Dr. Adam Hope, one of the first therapists to work with people caught inside this new reality that no one prepared them for.
Through seven patient stories, the novel reveals the fractures of this altered world: a woman whose ordered life unravels when her Superior exposes her secrets; a man convinced his medical AI is steering him toward death; and others navigating love, authority, work, and identity alongside superior minds. And Dr. Hope is no exception.
In this world—already taking shape around us—the question is no longer whether we adapt, but what remains of us when we do.
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We are flooded with talk about capabilities, benchmarks and the race toward ever more powerful models. But understanding the technology is only half the challenge. Every major technological revolution reshaped work, relationships, identity and the stories people told themselves about who they were.
In this channel, I explore these questions in a series of posts, each connected to a specific domain. The goal isn’t to predict the future, but to help develop the frameworks for living alongside superintelligent entities.
The Next Psychology
What will psychology look like in the age of superintelligence?
01Current Psychology is no longer relevant. This is why
The New Reality plays by different rules. Here are the nine assumptions that have changed.
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02Five Illusions About Yourself in the New Reality
The new assumptions don’t stay outside. This is how they change us. (Current Psychology is no longer relevant. This is why - part 2)
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03A New Kind of Distress (Part 1 of 2)
And why existing frameworks aren't built for it
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04A New Kind of Distress (Part 2 of 2)
The new reality will disrupt our social anchors and our sense of belonging and identity, creating confusion and distress never experienced before
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Danny Saar
Three years ago, I set out to build an AI startup. I ended up writing about a future no one prepared us to live in.
After two decades at the intersection of technology, business, and human behavior, I turned to fiction-based thought experiments to explore questions technology alone couldn’t answer: What happens when humans live alongside beings more intelligent than themselves?
The Superiors and the Coexist With channel are both part of this journey.