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Why It Matters Now
What cybernetics has to say about the systems being built today.
Part 1
Why We Need Cybernetics in the Age of AI
AI systems are feedback systems embedded in larger feedback systems. Five cybernetic questions that today's AI debate keeps circling without naming.
The Editors 16 October 2026
Part 2
In 1936, an Anthropologist Described the AI Sycophancy Spiral
When a chatbot agrees with us a little more each time, the loop that forms was already studied in 1936. Gregory Bateson called it schismogenesis, and his work explains how AI sycophancy builds and what holds it in check.
The Editors 7 October 2026