Essays

Introducing Imbue's Substack

A space to think together about the technological future we want and how to create it

Mar 11 • Ashley Zhang

A more radical Imbue

Our experiment in working with radical agency, control, and choice

Jan 30 • Josh Albrecht

Empowering humans in the age of AI

We founded Imbue in 2021 to build an AGI future where humans remain at the helm, shaping powerful AI systems rather than being subordinated to them.

Jan 18 • Kanjun Qiu

Choices and Knives

The collective future we want is a future of kitchens, not vending machines.

Sep 21, 2025 • glenn mcdonald

AAI

The missing thing in Artificial Intelligence is not generality, it's adaptation.

May 30, 2025 • glenn mcdonald

Idea Tools for Participatory Intelligence

We need tools that are predicated on our rights, dedicated to amplifying our creative capacity, and judged by how they help us improve our world.

May 16, 2025 • glenn mcdonald