{"slug": "kevin-kelly-ai-will-be-a-microscope-we-point-at-our-own-minds", "title": "Kevin Kelly: AI will be a microscope we point at our own minds", "summary": "Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Wired and partner at Cool Tools and the Recomendo newsletter, has been publishing essays on Substack about the future and artificial intelligence, describing AI as a microscope we point at our own minds. The essays are being praised by his collaborator at Boing Boing.", "body_md": "My incurable optimist friend, [Kevin Kelly](https://kk.org), co-founder of Wired and my partner at [Cool Tools](https://cool-tools.org) and the [Recomendo](https://www.recomendo.com) newsletter, has been posting [essays on Substack](https://kevinkelly.substack.com) mainly about the future, artificial intelligence, and what it means for humanity. I am loving these essays. — [Read the rest ](https://boingboing.net/2026/08/18/fountain-pen-kk-theory-of-intelligence.html)\n\nThe post [Kevin Kelly: AI will be a microscope we point at our own minds](https://boingboing.net/2026/08/18/fountain-pen-kk-theory-of-intelligence.html) appeared first on [Boing Boing](https://boingboing.net).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/kevin-kelly-ai-will-be-a-microscope-we-point-at-our-own-minds", "canonical_source": "https://boingboing.net/2026/08/18/fountain-pen-kk-theory-of-intelligence.html", "published_at": "2026-08-18 12:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-18 12:42:47.360760+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Kevin Kelly", "Wired", "Cool Tools", "Recomendo", "Substack", "Boing Boing"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/kevin-kelly-ai-will-be-a-microscope-we-point-at-our-own-minds", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/kevin-kelly-ai-will-be-a-microscope-we-point-at-our-own-minds.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/kevin-kelly-ai-will-be-a-microscope-we-point-at-our-own-minds.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/kevin-kelly-ai-will-be-a-microscope-we-point-at-our-own-minds.jsonld"}}