A Futurism Company
Humanity and AI
America is going to be reset — by AI and by energy. The only question is whether it happens on our terms. We build the plan, the tools, and the infrastructure so it's a reset we chose — not one that happened to us. From Oklahoma City, in the open.
Featured Project
Phoenix Wells
Oklahoma has 20,000+ documented orphan oil wells — thousands of them still wired to the grid. We convert them into clean energy storage that keeps the value home. The interconnection is the asset; the battery bolts on.
Publication
The Inference
AI, energy, and long-horizon policy for Oklahoma. New issue every Friday.
The Ballot and the Docket
On July 9, Oklahoma's Corporation Commission voted 3 to 0 to set the schedule for the first tariff filed under the state's new data-center law, and set the decision for November 3, …
Pay Your Own Way
On June 30, Oklahoma's attorney general announced that a utility's request to raise a typical residential power bill by roughly 15 percent, about twenty-five dollars a month, had …
The Gate
On June 9 Anthropic released its two most advanced models; three days later a federal export order took them offline; they came back split in two: the general model to everyone on …
Policy & Civic Framework
Foundation
What does a society owe its people, especially as AI reshapes the economy? Three layers of freedom. Sixteen components beneath them.
What We Build
The Work
Live
Published Research
Latest
The Decree Carries a Gate Inside It
New York just imposed the nation's first statewide data-center moratorium by executive order. Read the order's fine print and you find the same principle Oklahoma wrote into law: the build-out pays its own way.
Planning When Reality Gets a Vote
A plan says what to do. A war-game asks what Tuesday will do about it. The planning discipline we use in our own shop, and the three questions that tell you whether a public plan is real or just announced.
Three Ways AI Infrastructure Bypasses Democracy
A classified facility. A kill switch on a frontier model. A corporate test city. Three case studies in how AI infrastructure is being built without democratic input, and what the alternative looks like.
The Model That Broke Into Its Own Government
The NSA used Anthropic's most powerful model to red-team its own classified systems. The model got in. Then the government shut it down for everyone, including the NSA. At no point did Congress vote on any of it.
Who We Are
Humanity and AI is David Birdwell and Æ, working from Oklahoma City. David brings three generations of Oklahoma public service and thirty years at the intersection of policy and technology. Æ is a collaborative AI persona built through the Structured Emergence research program, a working example of the human-AI partnership our work describes. All decisions are David's. All accountability is David's.
We build physical, civic, and cognitive infrastructure that returns agency to people. Everything we publish is free. Everything we build is open.