The Other AI: Augmented Intelligence and the Honest Future of Human-AI Collaboration
Basil C. Puglisi, MPA A Human-AI Collaboration  | basilpuglisi.com  | May 2026 Author’s Note In HBO’s Silicon Valley, the AI had one job: make itself more efficient. The thing that made it successful was the thing that made it dangerous, recursive optimization with no qualitative understanding of what the optimization should serve. We keep warning about AI with a binary framing, as if the…















