Revolutionizing Social Change: How Rovelli-Inspired AI Social Networks Could Be the Future of an Inclusive and Egalitarian Internet

Japhy Grant
3 min readJan 7, 2023
DALL-E 2 prompt by Japhy Grant

In recent years, social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook have become a powerful force for social change, allowing individuals to connect and mobilize on a global scale like never before. But what if we could take the capabilities of social media to an even higher level by building networks that are powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and inspired by the ideas of physicist and philosopher Carlo Rovelli?

According to Rovelli, the fundamental building blocks of the universe are not particles or objects, but rather are events and processes that are interconnected and influence one another. This idea challenges many of the basic assumptions that underlie our current understanding of the universe and could lead to a very different view of reality than the one we have today.

But what if we could harness this understanding of reality to build AI-powered social networks that are more attuned to the interconnectedness of events and processes in the world? Such networks might be able to better understand the relationships between different systems and objects, leading to more sophisticated and nuanced predictions about their behavior. They might also be able to approach social problems and…

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Japhy Grant

Founder, Xprojects and digital strategist for the Berggruen Institute