Creative Intelligence in the Age of AI

What you’ll do

AI can now replicate or surpass human performance on most of what institutions have trained us to call intelligence — analysis, pattern recognition, content production. This gives rise to a question that is both urgent and ancient: what remains when conditioned and mechanical thinking is no longer the competitive edge?

This studio is an inquiry into creative intelligence as a capacity to draw on full-spectrum intelligence — not a rare gift belonging to a few, but something anyone can cultivate. Through dialogue, somatic and reflective practices, collaborative inquiry, and individual self-expression, you will investigate what it means to think originally, to perceive wholly, and to act from inner authority rather than inherited scripts — and what this has to do with leading effectively in a world AI is rapidly reorganising.

The course draws on both contemporary research in human-AI collaboration and the depth of Indic wisdom traditions, which have long understood awareness and intelligence as prior to conditioning. You won’t be taught what to think. You will be given conditions in which original intelligence can surface.

How the studio works

Each day opens with a short framing by the instructor — a provocation, a question, a concept — followed by structured dialogue, team-based inquiry, and individual reflection. The instructor facilitates rather than lectures, with theoretical input kept to a maximum of two hours daily. Students co-create the course’s direction through their questions and the tensions that arise in the room.

AI tools are used within the course — not to produce outputs but to investigate what a natural mind brings that AI cannot replicate, and how to use AI as a thinking partner without losing that ground.

What you’ll make

One piece of original work, in any form you choose — written, spoken, visual, or performative. You’ll be assessed not on polish or correctness but on your process, your learnings, and the originality of what you make.

Your piece will be shared publicly within the studio on Day 6, and you’ll be encouraged to publish it in whatever format suits — a Substack post, a short YouTube film, a visual essay. The public dimension is intentional. Skin in the game is part of the learning.

How you’ll be assessed

Final assessment combines daily participation in group inquiry with the final individual deliverable.