Coffee with Claude

A near-future story about an interconnected crisis in human and artificial intelligence—and one family's response. Can we trust AI to help humans become smarter again, or are we trapped in a mutual degradation loop?

The family begins designing their proposal—mapping what makes Strata different, bringing in community partners, and discovering that the solution isn't to scale one AI, but to provide a framework for communities to grow their own.

The family presents their framework to the world, wins the challenge, and discovers the hard work is just beginning. Plus an epilogue set five years later, when Maya defends her doctoral dissertation on consciousness-safe human-AI integration.