<p>We enjoyed giving a virtual keynote for the Autonomous Summit on December 4, 2025, titled Becoming Synthetic: What AI Is Doing To Us, Not Just For Us. </p><p>We talked about our research on how to maintain human agency &amp; cognitive sovereignty, the philosophical question of what it means to be human, and our new(ish) approach to create better AI tools called unDesign. </p><p>unDesign is not the absence of design nor is it anti-design. It&#39;s design oriented differently. The history of design has been a project of reducing uncertainty. Making things legible. Signaling affordances. Good design means you never have to wonder what to do.</p><p>Undesign inverts this and uses &quot;uns&quot; as design material. The unknown. The unpredictable. The unplanned. These aren&#39;t bugs. They&#39;re the medium where value actually lives. Because uncertainty is the condition of genuine encounter. </p><p>unDesign doesn&#39;t design outcomes—it designs the space where outcomes can emerge.</p><p>You can watch the full keynote below. Check it out!</p>