Me:chine® is Tracey’s independent research programme exploring machinable and unmachinable capabilities, and the changing relationship between systems and selves.

While everyone is asking what AI can do, Me:chine asks what has AI does to us?

WHY ME:CHINE®

Artificial intelligence is changing more than work or technology.

It is changing how decisions are made, how identities are understood, how organisations operate and how human capability is distributed between people and machines.

OUR RESEARCH

Me:chine explores the changing relationship between systems and selves through original research, publications and collaborations.

Current areas of work include:

  • Machinable and Unmachinable Capabilities

  • Me:chine World

  • System & Self

  • Database Brands

  • Database Selves

CURRENT PROJECTS

  • Me:chine® Institute - opening its doors soon

An independent research programme exploring machinable and unmachinable capabilities, and what becomes uniquely human in an AI-mediated world.

The programme brings together original research, collaborations, grant-funded projects, observatories and practical inquiry into identity, agency and human capability.

  • Me:chine® Signal - observes emerging change

A research observatory tracking the emerging capabilities, tensions and adaptations that arise as AI systems become more agentic. In field now.

  • Me:chine® Dialogues - develops the ideas publicly

A growing body of essays, dialogues and conceptual writing that develops the ideas, language and emerging frameworks of Me:chine. Part field notes, part philosophy and part research

the Codex records the evolution of the work as it unfolds in essays

the Podcast records the discussions about Me:chine with global thought leaders in AI, consciousness, research, human-centred design, media ecology and more.

  • Papers & Publications - formalises and evidences the research

Research papers, book chapters and publications that develop the ideas behind Me:chine. Accessible on ResearchGate or here in papers.

Start here with Tracey’s essay that opens Chapter 1, “Cultivating Human Agency and Prioritizing Autonomy” in this report from Elon University’s Imagining the Digital Future Center.

Research in Practice

Research is only valuable if it changes how people think and act.

Insights from Me:chine inform Futuremade's advisory work, executive education, keynote talks and the System & Self methodology.

The research is designed not only to understand the future, but to help organisations and individuals navigate it.

Collaborate

Me:chine welcomes opportunities to collaborate with researchers, universities, foundations, organisations and funding bodies interested in where the machinable and unmachinable selves meet in the age of AI.

Areas include:

  • collaborative research

  • grant-funded projects

  • speaking

  • executive education

  • thought leadership partnerships

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