Chicago in Five Breaths
A 51-second watercolor film of Chicago made with AI, and what an $11.65 video bill changes about exploring a creative idea.
Ideas & culture
Ideas across time · About
About
Born in the Netherlands, at home in Chicago, with a lifelong habit of asking one more question.
A life between worlds.
I’m Dinand Tinholt, an AI consultant, researcher, writer and builder. Originally from the Netherlands, I now call Chicago home.
My work at Capgemini brings me into conversations about how organizations use AI and data, and how those choices affect the people doing the work. I’m especially interested in decision intelligence and the relationship between human judgment and increasingly capable systems.
Beyond technology, my interests lead me into history, literature and philosophy. Old books and maps share shelf space with ideas about the future. I find inspiration in art, from Warhol’s repetitions to the questions Banksy leaves on a wall.
This is a place to bring those interests together, through essays, research, things I build and notes from what I read.
All writings and statements on this site, and in my publications elsewhere, are my own. They are not attributable to Capgemini.
A body of work
Five years of thinking in public.
Writing began with data culture in 2022 and has moved, year by year, toward agents, oversight and simulation.
- 132
- Published articles
- 28
- Research studies
- 8
- Systems & instruments
- 3
- Recent public appearances
Articles per year
Counts include only articles with a known year.
What the writing returns to
Power, with poise
A second Maison Agent experiment presents the AI control plane as a fragrance ad, with one gold ring gathering black ribbons and a single sentence beneath it.
The agentic enterprise
Engineering the Synthetic Organization
Thirteen disciplines of AI engineering in four layers, all reporting to one control plane, and the five trust disciplines that decide whether an agent can be left alone.
The agentic enterprise
Who Checks the Agents
The lab’s work on AI delegation and oversight in one film, with each published number shown beside the limits its campaign states.
Oversight & accountability