Essays on AI and Us
What does AI do to the person holding the pen? To the organization that deploys it? To the professional who built a career the machine can now approximate? These essays explore what readiness looks like from the inside out.
Chris Perry · Andus Labs · February 2026
Human OS for AI
$300 billion spent. 75% of programs fail. The missing layer.
A program manager at a global bank minimizes a $12 million AI platform to use her $20 ChatGPT tab. She does her real work in the second tab. So does most of her team. Nobody has built the human system yet. Every organization reaches the same fork. This is what the second path looks like.
Our Third Option
The frame that both doom and utopia miss.
Doom says give up. Utopia says sit back. Thomas Wagner used AI to build a research network for his dying son from a kitchen table at 2 AM. He had no medical credentials. Ten labs are now investigating his son's disease.
Authorship Watch
What AI does to the person holding the pen.
Somewhere around draft three, I stopped being the person writing this. Over coffee the next morning, my wife read it. The look on her face said everything: "I don't know who wrote this, but it's definitely not you."
AI lab builder, advisor, practitioner. Two decades at IPG and Weber Shandwick leading digital transformation for Fortune 500 enterprises. Author of Perspective Agents. Founder of Andus Labs.