Coffee with Claude

From Mary Shelley's Villa Diodati to living neurons on Lake Geneva to my own distributed sensor network, four distinct approaches to creating intelligence converge on a single question: What is our relationship to the minds we make?

Thirty years ago, we gathered at a mountain field station to discuss how complex behaviors emerge from simple rules. Today’s debates about AI agents and alignment are asking remarkably similar questions—but now we finally have the infrastructure and tools to explore them with real-world data.