People, Ideas, Machines – Jack Stewart – Remap

The world feels broken and our leaders seem to have no answers. Their reflex (and ours) is to hand control to machines. It happened with the financial system in 2008. It happened with social media, where basic algorithms gave us echo chambers and served shareholders, not citizens. Now AI arrives with the same promise and bigger stakes: hallucinated answers, outsourced thinking, contested authorship, and a productivity arms race dressed up as freedom. For an industry that designs places for people, the tools we use matter. This talk argues for questioning the methodology, knowing how our tools work, and remembering the order: people, ideas, machines.