The Question We Keep Asking
Neurazine begins with a single question: what happens when intelligence itself becomes a technology? This issue is our first attempt at an answer.
The Editors · Edited by Jesse Marcel · · 4 min read
For most of history, intelligence was something you were born with, cultivated slowly, and lost. It was scarce, embodied, and mortal. It lived in people and, at a stretch, in the institutions people built to hold what they knew.
That is no longer quite true. Intelligence — or something that behaves enough like it to matter — is now something you can rent by the token, run on a server, copy without loss, and improve on a schedule. It is being grown in dishes of neurons, wired into prosthetic limbs, and pointed at the sky in search of company. It has become, in the most literal sense, a technology.
Neurazine exists to take that shift seriously without taking it breathlessly.
What we cover
We are not a magazine about artificial intelligence, although we will write about it constantly. We are a magazine about intelligence in all of its emerging forms: the silicon kind, the biological kind, the augmented kind, the collective kind, and the kinds we do not yet have good names for. Our territory runs from the transformer to the synapse, from the longevity clinic to the observatory, from the robotics lab to the parliament.
What holds it together is a conviction that these stories are one story. The tools that let a model reason are changing how we understand the brain. The tools that let us read the brain are changing what we can ask of machines. Both are changing what it means to be a person, a worker, a citizen, and a patient.
How we cover it
Three commitments, which we will be held to.
Evidence before enthusiasm. Every claim on these pages should be traceable to a source that a careful reader could check. When the evidence is thin, we will say so. When it contradicts a comfortable story, we will say that too.
Human judgment at every step. Neurazine is produced with the help of AI systems — for research, for drafting, for checking. It is not produced by them. Every story you read has been approved by an editor who is accountable for it. We think that distinction is going to matter more, not less.
Design as a form of respect. A serious subject deserves a serious surface. We have tried to build a magazine that is a pleasure to read at length, on any screen, without the clutter that has come to define the modern web.
This issue
Our first issue is called A More Human Intelligence, and it is organised around a hope rather than a prediction: that the arrival of abundant machine intelligence could make us more human, not less — more curious, better informed, more capable of care.
That hope is not guaranteed. The stories that follow examine where it holds, where it strains, and what it would take to make it true.
Welcome to Neurazine.
— The Editors
Produced by the The Editors of Neurazine, an Abstract Sight Press publication. Researched and drafted with AI systems, checked against sources, and approved by Jesse Marcel, Editor of Record. How Neurazine is made.
