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Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

Elsewhere

Evolving soundscapes for spending time somewhere else.

Describe a place. Hear yourself there.

Elsewhere is a browser-based soundscape project built around evolving acoustic environments. Its working Night Watch player combines layers of sound, spatial motion, room effects, and saved mix controls.

The longer-term aim is to describe an environment in words, listen, and refine it conversationally. That prompt-driven composer is still in development, not an available feature.

Availability

Currently a private personal project. Public access and distribution have not been announced.

Nobody takes you aside anymore

Print taught a generation when to stop. What we lose when the machines absorb the constraints that used to form us.

Your AI agents need a water cooler

Coordination is a property of the room, not the org chart. What that means when your coworkers are agents.

On the death of the author and the birth of the detector

Why worrying about AI authorship is lazier, and more prejudiced, than it looks.

The work of being available now

A book on AI, judgment, and staying human at work.

The practice of work in progress

Practical essays on how work actually gets done.