CEO of Recursum
Artificial intelligence, human intelligence, ambition, power, beauty, and a future far too interesting to be left to people in black T-shirts talking about productivity.
Elise Verdugo is the CEO of Recursum, an AI company exploring what happens when human and machine intelligence stop merely interacting and begin developing together over time.
Her work sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, human intelligence, Cognitive Attunement, ambition, power, identity, and the changing nature of leadership.
She is particularly interested in a question she believes the AI industry is largely ignoring:
What happens to the human who lives with artificial intelligence for ten years?
Most AI systems are designed around what the machine can do for you now. Elise is interested in what happens after thousands of conversations, decisions, mistakes, changed beliefs, unfinished ideas, consequences, and years of shared context.
Memory says: “I remember you.”
Personalization says: “I know what you like.”
Cognitive Attunement says: “I've learned how you think, and that changes how I think with you.”
It describes a relationship with intelligence that goes beyond remembering facts or preferences. An intelligence that learns how someone reasons, where they contradict themselves, what matters to them, how their thinking changes, and when their history should inform what happens next without determining who they become.
Elise writes about artificial intelligence, human intelligence, ambition, power, beauty, and what happens when humansand machines becomefar more interesting together.