AI & HUMANITIES

Keeping thought, judgment, and responsibility at the table.

Essays, salons, and public conversations about the human conditions of living and learning with AI.

A refined circular salon with luminous tree-like structures and deep blue seating

The AI & Humanities Salon creates a bridge between practical experimentation and philosophical reflection. Its purpose is not to romanticize or reject technology, but to ask what kinds of attention, agency, relationship, and responsibility intelligent systems invite us to cultivate.

WHO · WHEN · WHERE · INTERACTIVE EXPLORATION

AI & Traditional Culture Explorations

Explore Zi Wei Dou Shu through interactive charts, candidate birth-time comparisons and relationships, with reflective action suggestions and an illustrated Word guide.

Explore traditional culture

AI & Humanities · Evidence Graph

GraphRAG & Multimodal Knowledge Graphs

76 concepts and 82 named relations with search, path exploration and source evidence in both languages.

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INTERACTIVE KNOWLEDGE GRAPH · FROM SOURCES TO KNOWLEDGE

Core Knowledge Graph

Explore 346 entities and 405 source-backed semantic relationships. Search concepts, follow relationship paths, trace report evidence, and explore Neo4j query and GDS analysis results.

Explore the knowledge graph

SKILL METHODS · EVIDENCE & REASONING · DRAFT GENERATION

Skill Knowledge Graph

Explore 78 entities, 104 document relationships, and 14 rule-based inferences about WorkBuddy skills. Trace source evidence and generate editable, downloadable Skill drafts and test cases for your task.

Explore the Skill knowledge graph

FIVE EXPERTS · FOUR TASK MODES · SIX SCENARIOS

Knowledge Graph Team · Getting Started

Meet the five experts, generate instructions for graph building, knowledge queries, graph analytics, and rule-based reasoning, and download the team package and guides for use in your local WorkBuddy client.

Open the team guide

FICTIONAL FAMILY · KINSHIP · INTERACTIVE GRAPH

Wang Xiaotu’s 29-Member Fictional Family

Explore 29 fictional family members across a core family and five extended-family branches, with kinship terms, relationship paths, and assumed age order. The interactive graph is in Chinese.

Explore the family graph
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Selected themes

ESSAY

In an Age of Cognitive Alienation, How Do We Invite Thinking Back to the Table?

A reflection on delegated cognition, the erosion of intellectual agency, and practices for reclaiming inquiry.

PRACTICE

From Instructions to Systems: Four Engineering Perspectives

An accessible account of how prompts become roles, workflows, feedback loops, and governed systems.

SALON

AI, education, and the future of human growth

A continuing conversation among educators, technologists, students, and reflective practitioners.

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Conversation principles

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Slow down the obvious answer

Create enough distance to notice assumptions, absences, and alternative framings.

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Connect systems to lived experience

Ask how abstractions change attention, relationships, work, learning, and responsibility.

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Practice intellectual hospitality

Make room for disagreement, uncertainty, and perspectives that complicate the prevailing story.

PROBLEM COMPETENCY · INDIVIDUAL PRACTICE

Six-Loop Questioning · Interactive Practice

Bring a real situation. Record what happened, examine your assumptions, ask a focused question, and take a small step to test it. Review the feedback and apply what you learned in another situation.

RECORD · THINK · ASK · ACT · REVIEW · TRANSFORMStart the six-loop practice

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Events, posters, and articles

AI & Humanities · Tools in Practice

Recording a WeChat Video with Free OBS Studio

A practical Windows guide based on my own experience: selecting the right video window, capturing computer audio, making a 10-second test, and saving and reviewing a complete recording—with help from AI.