The Right to Be Unpredictable: AI, Algorithms & the Cost of Conformity

In an age of recommendation engines, behavioral profiles, and AI trained on the average of everything humans have already written, the freedom to be unpredictable is getting harder to exercise. Sean Leahy and Andrew Maynard explore why predictability breeds fragility, how education and AI can both build "playpens" around us, and what it would take to design systems that make room for serendipity on purpose.