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Now that AI has a will, it's up to us to find a way.

For decades, we built software that did what it was told—and nothing else. Agentic AI breaks this bargain: systems that remember, reason, and pursue goals. They arrive less like code and more like colleagues—tireless, fast, and, like any new hire, occasionally in need of supervision.

As a Bay Area community spotlight, I'm featuring local author Jan Rosen and his new book Cognitive Kin: How to Work, Win, and Make Meaning with Agentic AI (co-authored with Dr. Christophe Kolb).

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"Cognitive Kin offers a compelling glimpse into a future where humans and autonomous systems co-create the world around them. Kolb and Rosen reveal with impressive clarity how agentic AI reshapes not only our tools but our perceptions, functioning as a new operating system for human endeavor."

—Michael John Gorman, Director, MIT Museum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Cognitive Kin maps the convergence of human and digital intelligence with insight and imagination. It's a fascinating practical guide to a changing world where cognition is increasingly shared."

—Michael Hasselmo, Director, Center for Systems Neuroscience, Boston University