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Vivienne Ming @socos.org · 2d

It’s worth the read, but manage your expectations if vampiric ennui isn’t your thing.
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Vivienne Ming @socos.org · 2d

SciFriday: V. E. Schwab’s “The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue” has stuck with me in the years since reading. "Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil" is an intriguing, lush take on vampires that is beautifully written, but for me, never quite reached the depths of Addie and her endless trauma.

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil Audiobook on Libro.fm

“Julia Whelan skillfully narrates Sabine's story of bloodlust and decay…Katie Leung's soft Scottish accent suits the grieving Alice…Lottie is portrayed by Marisa Calin, whose crisp English accent remi...

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Vivienne Ming @socos.org · 3d

This is what a true Cyborg Collective looks like in practice.

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#HybridIntelligence #CyborgCollective #AI #DigitalHumanities #FutureOfWork #Innovation

Cyborg Collective [RR]

This week is all about the cyborg collective (aka, hybrid collective intelligence): how not to do it; how humans do it; and, RoboIndy. 💡Follow me on LinkedIn or join my growing Bluesky! Or even..hey ...

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Vivienne Ming @socos.org · 3d

This example of hybrid collective intelligence isn't replacing the historian; it's giving them a superpower. It handles the vast, inhuman scale of data, dynamically interacting with humans to do the irreplaceable work of interpretation, contextualization, and meaning-making.

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Vivienne Ming @socos.org · 3d

When paired with a historian, the human-AI team consistently outperformed either the human or the AI working in isolation on key tasks like restoring and attributing ancient texts.

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Vivienne Ming @socos.org · 3d

A fun new article in Nature introduced a generative neural network for contextualizing ancient texts. AI designed to help historians contextualize ancient inscriptions. “Aeneas retrieves textual and contextual parallels, leverages visual inputs, handles arbitrary-length text restoration”.

Contextualizing ancient texts with generative neural networks - Nature

Aeneas, a generative neural network trained on ancient texts, helps historians contextualize inscriptions and perform epigraphic tasks, offering an improved starting point for historical research.

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Vivienne Ming @socos.org · 3d

Do Androids Dream the Lost Ark?
Doctors, engineers, and Indiana Jones—the list of AI-augmented jobs grows.

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Vivienne Ming @socos.org · 4d

I predict the most creative hybrid intelligences will also show a pattern of synchrony driving creativity.

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#Neuroscience #Creativity #Feedback #Collaboration #Leadership #HybridIntelligence

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Vivienne Ming @socos.org · 4d

The core of creative augmentation isn't just about transferring information; it's about two minds entering a shared cognitive and neural state. Right now I’m beginning my own research on synchrony in hybrid collective intelligence—between brains and machines.

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Vivienne Ming @socos.org · 4d

One-way feedback had no effect on creativity or neural synchronization. And needless to say, “Applying feedback positively correlated with creativity enhancement”, while “ignoring [feedback] was negatively correlated”.

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Vivienne Ming @socos.org · 4d

In fact, interpersonal feedback increases interbrain “neural synchronization" between participants, and greater synchronization leads to greater ”creativity enhancement”.

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Vivienne Ming @socos.org · 4d

A set of experiments on creativity and feedback found that only genuine, interpersonal feedback—a real dialogue— “improved creativity acquisition and transfer”.
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Applying, not ignoring: how feedback uptake and neural synchrony drive creativity - npj Science of Learning

npj Science of Learning - Applying, not ignoring: how feedback uptake and neural synchrony drive creativity

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Vivienne Ming @socos.org · 4d

Creative Synchrony
What happens in our brains when we receive feedback from others? Very little good…except in one specific format.

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Vivienne Ming @socos.org · 5d

Technology should not only make us better when we are using it; we should be better than where we started when we turn it off again.

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#AIinHealthcare #FutureOfWork #SkillDecay #Augmentation #Leadership #MedTech

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Vivienne Ming @socos.org · 5d

If your AI makes the human a simple fail-safe, you are not building an augmentation tool; you are building a de-skilling machine. This isn’t inevitable, but developers and users need to move beyond simple efficiency gains and transient metric bumps.

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Vivienne Ming @socos.org · 5d

The AI turned the expert from an active participant into a passive supervisor, and their skills atrophied as a result. A tool designed to augment expertise ends up eroding it.

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Vivienne Ming @socos.org · 5d

A new analysis found that after endoscopists were continuously exposed to a polyp-detecting AI, their own performance on non-AI-assisted colonoscopies got significantly worse. Their “adenoma detection rate” dropped by a full 6 percentage points.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Endoscopist deskilling risk after exposure to artificial intelligence in colonoscopy: a multicentre, observational study

Continuous exposure to AI might reduce the ADR of standard non-AI assisted colonoscopy, suggesting a negative effect on endoscopist behaviour.

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Vivienne Ming @socos.org · 5d

Worse Without
Is there a colonoscopy in your near future? My wish for you is that your endoscopist is (1) using AI to improve their skills and (2) not relying on AI to replace their skills. Unfortunately, the later might be the trend.

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Vivienne Ming @socos.org · 6d

Libraries and schools are the natural home for this work. I'm honored to be part of the conversation and would love for you to join us.
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#FutureOfLibraries #Education #AI #Equity #RobotProof #Maryland #Baltimore #EdTech

Fall 2025 SLRC Conference

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Vivienne Ming @socos.org · 6d

As part of the conference's theme, "Convergence: Technology, Equity, and the Future," I'll be diving into the science of how we cultivate foundational skills, the human qualities that complement AI and predict positive life outcomes.

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Vivienne Ming @socos.org · 6d

The real goal isn't to be a better calculator or prompt crafter; it's to be the person who knows what questions are worth asking.

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Vivienne Ming @socos.org · 6d

The lazy answer for the future of education is, "Teach every kid to ‘AI skills’." What does that even mean?

Oct 28th, I'm thrilled to be giving a free keynote for the Maryland State Library Resource Center in Baltimore: "How to Robot-Proof Your Kids".

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Vivienne Ming @socos.org · 7d

* To embrace the uncertainty of explorers, you need the certainty of strong cultural norms.

Vivienne Ming @socos.org · 7d

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Vivienne Ming @socos.org · 7d

Move beyond speeches and posters to the hard science of engineering certainty*, redesigning incentives, empowering your hidden network of collaborators, and building a "Consequence Dashboard" that makes looking away impossible.

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