Three stories this week, one pattern underneath them: AI is moving from something you open (chat) to something you’re inside (the harness).
Meta’s Muse isn’t a just a new app you launch — it’s a feed engineered to stay on, and early users reportedly engage with it 10x more than testers. Notion now lets external agents act inside your workspace via MCP, no longer waiting for you to prompt each step. And researchers found LG TVs logging transcripts in standby, feeding the ad business — the same shape from the shadow side: a device acting on you while you assume it’s off.
Traditional interfaces are disappearing. AI is becoming ambient — the “room” (stack), not the tool in the room. Which means the choices that matter move upstream, into the defaults and permissions you set once and rarely revisit. You govern the environment, or it quietly governs you. The whole premise of Conscious Stack and why we’re training conscious technologists of the future.
Events & Learning
CT Monthly: Notion AI Signals (Oct 1) — a live virtual call for everyone to join, connect with one another, and also learn about our latest signals from the industry/market. This month will be focused on Notion AI as a rising contender for default AI harness across SMEs. Reserve your spot now ↗
Course: AI Foundations for Conscious Technologists — LLM and AI fundamentals, plus the hidden layers shaping cognition and consciousness. Built for CTs specifically — not another generic prompt course. Members get a discount. Enroll now ↗
Guest Talk: Guidance Beyond Language: Wisdom, Embeddings & LLMs — one of our members gave a talk recently on guiding LLMs. Highly recommended. View replay ↗
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Community Movements
Had our first student finish the AI Foundations for CTs course, then apply to join our Lab membership! Here’s a few words from her:
“This course has been absolutely mind-blowing! AI is actually very complex — just looks and feels simple. I completely misunderstood it before taking this course! It really helped me understand the logic of AI.” ~J
In Chiang Mai, one of our members (a local Anthropic Ambassador) is running an event on Sep 19th called Claude Code Build Day (with Fable 5.1). Highly recommended. From Sep 23-28, another member (John Ho) will be running Cosmo Local CNX (register here), where I’ll also be speaking.
Finally, have started a public Notion AI Challenge on X (see original article here). Showing people how to build a Notion AI consulting business from scratch, consciously. If you wish to follow along, register your details here.
This Week’s Action
Test out our micro tool, Dock — a Mac OS X dock-style version of our 1:3:5 setup inside Conscious Stack. The idea got a little bit of attention on X, so thought I’d polish it up and share the actual beta tool with you before the public!
Until next time,
— Siosi
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