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Independent researcher and systems builder in Atlanta.
His work moves across art, health, knowledge organization, ethics, and systems design because he keeps returning to the same question: how do complex human systems become clear enough to use?
Let AI Introduce Us is the latest expression of that work.
The work ahead
Let AI Introduce Us is an intuitive idea with complex consequences. If conversational AI becomes a social layer, decisions about identity, power, incentives, and safety stop being abstract. They become product architecture.
Those outcomes can emerge accidentally—or we can begin shaping them deliberately.
I have begun mapping the assumptions, intentions, tensions, and likely paths inside this design space. I would value the opportunity to put those maps in a room with the people who can challenge them, improve them, and begin building what follows.
Four areas to begin
What should AI infer, and what must people explicitly approve? When do verification, multiple identities, shared media, followers, and status begin recreating the system we meant to leave behind?
Who owns a room, grants authority, moderates behavior, creates groups, and becomes visible? Can useful leadership exist without popularity becoming the product?
Paid features, experts, counselors, performers, and vendors could create genuine value. How do we enable that without ads, engagement traps, or making social opportunity depend on what someone can pay?
What verification is appropriate? Can trusted locations participate? How should professional credentials, dating, age, consent, reporting, and in-person meetings shape the design?
I’ve begun breaking this idea into its core organs: the systems that would need to work together. This preliminary map gives a first view of the areas I would investigate with the team during a proposed six-week discovery.
We would draw on prior learning, refine the modules, explore lighter and richer versions, and assemble two or three coherent ecosystems before recommending what to prototype and how to test it internally.
View the discovery map · 1-page PDF
The practical ask
I am bringing this work to OpenAI first. Your work in voice and conversational AI makes this the place where I most want to explore a social layer designed to bring people back to one another.
I am ready to begin now: to share the maps behind this proposal, work alongside the teams already closest to the problem, and turn the questions ahead into product decisions that can be tested.
I can contribute through Potter & Company, bringing my systems work together with Sarah Potter’s creative direction and experience design—or directly within the right team.
OpenAI is my first choice, but I am committed to continuing this work. I hope the next step happens here.