CONCEPT
The Field Between Human and AI
The structured creative space generated by human-AI interaction—possessing its own properties, tensions, and inductive dynamics—that Faraday's physics provides the vocabulary to name and that the dominant analytical frameworks of the AI transition systematically fail to investigate.
The economists who measure productivity gains from AI adoption, the computer scientists who benchmark AI performance against human scores, and the policy analysts who calculate displacement rates all share a methodological assumption: the space between a human being and an AI system is empty. They treat the interaction as a two-body problem—how capable is the AI, how skilled is the user, how well does the tool match the task—without asking what happens in the space between them.
Faraday's physics provides the precise vocabulary for naming what they miss. The space between interacting entities is not a void but a field: a structured physical reality that mediates the interaction, shapes its character, and possesses properties that cannot be deduced from the properties of either participant alone.
Lines of force,
inductive coupling, remanence—these electromagnetic concepts describe, with physical precision, phenomena that builders working with
large language models recognize from direct experience: the productive tension between excitement