How Artists Think — The Evidence
September 20, 2026
Head of Research · ENSI
Jakub Bareš
I write about what happens when AI agents start to reason, decide and act on behalf of people — to companies, to states, and to the way we think. Everything below is the archive.
The archive
What I’ve been writing
Every essay published under this byline, counted by theme and by month. The figures are generated from the live archive, so they are current as of the last build.
300essays published
27months of continuous publishing
11essays per month, on average
9themes covered
Jul 2024Sep 2026
Preoccupations
What I keep coming back to
Six questions I have not managed to finish thinking about. They map onto the themes in the chart above.
How human systems actually behave
Attention, trust, status, boldness, character as a set of algorithms. The largest part of the archive, and the part I find hardest to stop writing.
How states really decide
Policy treated as an engineering problem: what a country must control, which levers move growth, and what changes once agents can act on a state’s behalf.
What general intelligence is made of
Architectures, alignment, and the awkward question of what “more intelligent” even means once you try to specify it.
What school is for when intelligence is cheap
If machines are abundant at reasoning, most of the curriculum answers a question nobody is asking any more. So what replaces it?
The rails underneath
Intelligence infrastructure — the unglamorous, structural layer an organisation or a country runs its thinking on, and which everything else quietly depends on.
Whether discovery can be automated
Handing the scientific method itself to machines: what that would take, and what breaks if it works.
Where to start
Six that carry the argument
Intelligence Infrastructure
Agent-Driven Civilization Builder Manifesto
The founding text: what it means to build civilisation deliberately once agents can act.
Intelligence Infrastructure
The National Sovereignty Playbook
How a state turns digital sovereignty from a stack of assets into an operating capability.
Policy Intelligence
The Agentic State: The Sixteen Principles
What a government must adopt before agents can legitimately act on its behalf.
AI Driven Innovation
Nature of Intelligence: The Moves
Intelligence isn’t more thinking. At the top of the ladder that picture is simply wrong.
Social Physics
Consciousness Is Human Gravity
The weakest force in physics built the universe. Sixteen laws for its human equivalent.
Hacking Education
The Sovereign Mind Manifesto
Educating humans in an age of abundant intelligence — and what school is now for.
Long-form
Reports
Book-length work, researched from downloaded primary sources. Readable page by page in the browser, or as a PDF.
How Agents Make a Country Grow
Twenty-four stalled growth levers, turned into buildable agentic programmes.
How Foresight Makes a Country Grow
What a national foresight capability is for, and what it costs a country not to have one.
The short version
Who’s writing
Based in Prague. I work on agentic architecture — software in which AI agents reason, decide and act on behalf of people, with explicit goal architecture, trust boundaries and evaluation loops. The writing here comes directly out of that work; it is where I think the problems through.
Day to day that means leading the World Health Organization’s move to an AI-first operating model, running research at ENSI, building Software-3.0 platforms at Metamatics Ventures, and chairing the Intelligence Group at the AFCEA Czech Chapter, where the work is the agentic transformation of the Czech state. I teach agentic software at ČVUT.
Before that: a Mgr. in Computer Science from Masaryk University, exchange study at Copenhagen Business School, and a bachelor’s from FAMU in film and new media — which is a stranger route into this than it sounds, and probably explains the essays.
World Health OrganizationAgent-Driven AI Strategist · since 2024
ENSIHead of Research · since 2023
Metamatics VenturesFounder & Chief Innovation Officer
AFCEA Czech ChapterExecutive Chairman, Intelligence Group
ČVUTLecturer, agentic software
Get in touch
Working on something agentic?
Speaking, advisory, or a problem you think belongs in the archive — email or LinkedIn is fastest.
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