Carl lives in Olympia, Washington.
Carl is an AI enthusiast.
Carl has a motto: with AI, even common, ordinary folk should succeed.
What does “to succeed” mean? If intelligence becomes available everywhere, all the more reason to find that break, a peace that we all long for, to walk around the park with it: watch the birds, notice the green of the grass, let a thought unfold at your own pace.
A future with AI and a basic income would still leave a human question: what do we want our days to hold? Time to make art, meet a neighbor, care for a place, or simply be present. One’s peace in society, in themselves, deserves a place in that future.
A secure life, with fewer necessary working hours, room for meaningful work, and time for a peaceful walk—that’s what “to succeed” means to me. If AI can help make that possible, that’s a genie I don’t want back in the lamp. Those hopes still need testing in practice, and people deserve room to weigh the possibilities, question them, and decide for themselves.
If AI helps reduce the hours we need to work, that should leave people secure, with dignity and room to choose. I hope that breathing room reaches our streets and neighborhoods, too: time to slow down, notice others, and take care, with places nearby to work, shop, make art, and meet.
Roads and public transit should help people reach the lives they choose. A neighborhood should also offer a life close to home, without a constant demand to hurry across a city or county. I walk to work. Why shouldn't more people have that choice? How people spend their time is theirs to decide. They should not be "handcuffed" to a lifestyle, a long commute, or systems that restrict their choices and make a secure life harder to reach. How we treat one another remains our responsibility.
So, as AI expands automation, society faces a choice about who shapes everyday life: corporations with increasing control, or communities with the resources and authority to govern themselves. I want to help build the latter.
This proposal dates to October 4, 2026, as recorded on my home page and in the archive saved on GitHub:
Its aim is to bring creative tools, printing and places to meet into ordinary community life. Digital work can become something people make, inspect and share together.
AI can assist; people keep judgment and responsibility. The accompanying Archive, linked below, offers ways to question claims, check evidence and test ideas in practice.
The project grows from my art advocacy and a tribute to my father.
I work in sanitation in Olympia, Washington. I developed this guide with AI assistance as part of my art and community advocacy. Companies building and selling AI should make its limits clear and provide usable protections for privacy, judgment and refusal. People using these tools should also have a part in questioning them and shaping how they enter everyday life.
This 2015 photograph shows my digital artwork printed on stretched canvas and displayed in a shared physical space:
It is the advocacy of presentation that should help to show others what is possible: printed shirts, spiral-bound notebooks and more. My printed artwork is meant as a starting point for other people.
My father, a lifelong teacher, continues to teach me after his passing on October 4, 2021.
This page introduces a proposal I’m developing through art, everyday work, observation, and dialogue with AI. Its wider effects remain to be tested. The essence of the work is this: take one useful idea, examine it, and adapt it to your own circumstances. If you try it, notice what helps, what costs it carries, and what needs to change. I welcome experiences, objections, and corrections through the social accounts linked below.
AI is a tool that can assist, teach and help build a better world.