Strategist, author, speaker
Helping people and institutions make deliberate choices about AI.
AI strategist, author, and speaker. I connect the dots across technology, power, and society, and make complex shifts simple enough to act on.
Oxford M.Sc. in AI. Enterprise AI training. Author of Future Without Consent. Editor of The Consent Report.
A proof point
Future Without Consent
The societal question, at book length.
How AI, Power, and Profit Are Deciding What Comes Next
AI is reshaping work, truth, and power. A handful of companies are making the decisions. Future Without Consent asks who gave them that authority, and what we stand to lose.
Asitane Press. PDF edition on this site.
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AI strategist, author, and speaker. The work is helping people choose on purpose.
- Strategist. Sees the pattern, connects technology to power and society, and explains the shift so people can act.
- M.Sc. in AI, University of Oxford. Computer vision research before generative AI.
- Enterprise AI training, helping organizations get value from AI.
- Speaker at conferences and events internationally.
- Co-author of a 2025 Scaled Agile white paper.1 EDGE and AI-Native.
- Author of Future Without Consent. Editor of The Consent Report.
1 Asim served as a co-author and core contributor to both the EDGE and AI-Native frameworks, which were developed for and are solely owned by Scaled Agile, Inc. (SAI).
What I've mapped
The argument sits on a public record: a timeline of decisions, a set of topics, and the essays that come out of them.
- Surveillance & Facial Recognition
Systems that identify people in public, and the police and companies that put them to work.
- The AI Arms Race
The contest to field more capable systems first, and the pressure that contest puts on everyone else.
- Labor & Automation
What happens to work when a model can do a job, and who writes the rule that follows.
- Regulation & Oversight
Laws, orders, and regulators trying to put a public rule around private systems.
Essays
All writing- 15 October 2026Universal Basic Income: Will It Set Us Free?When the people building AI also propose a basic income, the useful question is what the payment solves, and what a person actually owns when the machines do the work.
- 9 September 2026An Anthropic Insider Just Confirmed It: There Is No PlanA resignation, and a public reply from Anthropic's alignment lead, put a number on the risk and said there is no plan for the scenario that worries them.
- EssayInnocent Until the Algorithm Says OtherwiseCourts are being asked to trust machine accusations and to doubt recordings at the same time. The extra weight is landing on the person least able to carry it.
The Consent Report
The Consent Report
The societal question, once a week: who decides how AI reshapes ordinary life.