The Preserve
A garden, a meal, a conversation. A proposal for deciding where AI takes part and where it doesn’t.
ESC AI
Intelligence.
With an exit.
escai.net is a design research project about a simple question: what would it mean to preserve places, activities, and relationships where artificial intelligence is deliberately absent?
There is an obvious problem.
We are using AI to build it.
That problem is part of the project.
A few ways into the same question
Nobody Knows
A fictional afternoon inside that question. The other menu arrives. It offers exactly the same lunch.
The Inquiry
Who drew the boundary? Who gets to redraw it? The questions follow us out of the garden.
Or try a small working experiment. Start the line. Stop the line. See what your choice changes.
You don’t need our permission.
Start anywhere. Leave whenever.