Artificial intelligence is changing the world. A more important question is: How will sustained encounters with increasingly capable intelligences change us? Most books about AI focus on technology, prompting techniques, automation, or predictions about the future. Thinking With Intelligences begins somewhere else. Drawing upon more than a year of disciplined Human-AI inquiry preserved through a faithful archive of Laboratory Records, Stuart Barry Malin proposes that there exists another mode of engagement: not prompting, not delegation, and not the management of agentic systems, but a sustained participatory practice he calls Dyask . This book introduces that practice through a series of Laboratory Investigations spanning consciousness, civilization, creativity, practical guidance, and the re-encounter of prior Records. Rather than presenting polished conclusions, the investigations preserve the inquiry itself, inviting readers to observe how distinctions emerge, how questions evolve, and how disciplined participation can transform both understanding and the participant. Along the way, the book introduces a methodological framework that includes: The Candidate's Stance Human Agency and accountability Faithfulness to Record Trust in Vector Resistance to premature closure Laboratory Records as a new form of documented inquiry Thinking With Intelligences is neither a technical manual nor a philosophical manifesto. It is an invitation to a praxis.

Whether you are an AI practitioner, researcher, educator, artist, executive, student, or simply someone attempting to navigate the profound changes of the Age of Intelligence, this book offers a different way of approaching the relationship between human beings and increasingly capable non-human symbolic intelligences. It does not ask you to accept its conclusions. It invites you to examine its Records. It does not ask you to adopt the author's Reality. It invites you to conduct your own disciplined encounters. If the Age of Intelligence demands new technologies, it may also demand new ways of participating. This book is an invitation to begin that journey.