Adam J. Smith - AI, Technology & Economics
Papers
Competence and Coherence: The Structural Foundations of Enterprise AI Readiness
A formal decomposition of enterprise data architecture for AI. We reduce operational data to ontological primitives and show that AI readiness is a function of coherence—the standardization of the enterprise's ontological representations.
Essays
Reality has a hand crank attached to it. When I turn it, things move forward. When I don't, entropy wins. The system I use to keep turning is simple, but it works.
Our attention is stolen in pennies—notifications, emails, feeds—until our entire fortune is gone. We need AI not as an assistant, but as a bouncer: keeping the riff raff out so we can focus on what matters.
'Value is not intrinsic; it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment.' — Ludwig von Mises
'We shape our tools, and thereafter they shape us' — Marshall McLuhan