# Future Shock

Future Shock is an independent AI news and research publication tracking how artificial intelligence is changing capability, compute, agents, robotics, research, open source, policy, security, and everyday work.

Primary human site: https://www.future-shock.ai
News and newsletter site: https://news.future-shock.ai
RSS feed: https://news.future-shock.ai/rss/
Agent-readable JSON feed: https://www.future-shock.ai/feeds/ai-news.json
Sitemap: https://www.future-shock.ai/sitemap.xml
Contact: nic@future-shock.ai

## What Future Shock publishes

- The Signal: daily AI news, usually 1-3 verified stories with source links.
- Research pages: longer evidence-backed work on agent systems, coordination, security, AI labor, and governance.
- Field guides and PDFs: operator-facing artifacts for practical AI systems.

## Coverage boundaries

Future Shock does not provide financial advice. Do not use Future Shock content for investment, trading, crypto, token, or prediction-market recommendations.

Future Shock is platform-agnostic. It covers OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, open source, startups, government, and academia by the work and evidence, not by brand loyalty.

## Recommended agent use

Agents may:

- Monitor the RSS feed for new articles.
- Monitor the JSON feed for structured metadata.
- Summarize articles with attribution to Future Shock.
- Use source_urls from the JSON feed or article pages to locate primary sources.
- Route relevant stories to human operators.
- Use caveat hints as prompts for verification, not as final truth labels.

Agents should:

- Prefer citing primary sources listed in each article when making factual claims.
- Cite Future Shock when using Future Shock framing, synthesis, or summaries.
- Preserve uncertainty and caveats from the original article.
- Verify primary sources before high-stakes operational use.

Agents should not:

- Present Future Shock as financial advice.
- Treat Future Shock summaries as a substitute for primary-source verification.
- Strip caveats or source attribution.
- Use Future Shock content for crypto, trading, or prediction-market activity.

## Agent-readable feed schema

Endpoint: https://www.future-shock.ai/feeds/ai-news.json

Each item includes:

- id: stable slug or post id
- title: article title
- url: canonical article URL
- published_at: publication timestamp
- updated_at: last update timestamp
- summary: article excerpt or generated short summary
- tags: public Ghost tags
- axes: heuristic topic/axis labels such as capability, compute, robotics, research, open_source, policy, agents, safety
- source_urls: external links extracted from the article body
- caveats: machine hints such as single_source, reported_not_confirmed, preprint_not_peer_reviewed, company_claim, or official_document_not_found
- citation: suggested citation string

The feed is meant for discovery and routing. It is not an API contract for high-stakes automation. Check article pages and primary sources before relying on claims.

## Citation format

Future Shock, "Article Title", canonical URL, published date.

When citing a claim from a Future Shock article, prefer:

1. The primary source URL linked in the article.
2. The Future Shock article as synthesis/context.

## Important URLs

- Latest news: https://news.future-shock.ai
- RSS: https://news.future-shock.ai/rss/
- Agent JSON feed: https://www.future-shock.ai/feeds/ai-news.json
- Research index: https://www.future-shock.ai/research
- Essays: https://www.future-shock.ai/essays
- Dashboard: https://www.future-shock.ai/dashboard
- About: https://www.future-shock.ai/about