Built to Feel: AI Beyond the Screen

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from nature.”

Karl Schroeder

As AI moves off our devices and into the environments around us, a new design frontier is emerging—one where intelligence is embedded not as spectacle, but as atmosphere. Built to Feel explores how ambient, invisible AI can support emotional nuance, sensory experience, and human connection across workplace, retail, and hospitality spaces.

Rather than performing or directing, AI in this context recedes—enhancing the feeling of a place without defining it. The result is a more instinctive, personalized, and human-centered experience.