‘Intelition’ changes everything: AI is no longer a tool you invoke

AI is evolving faster than our vocabulary for describing it. We may need a few new words. We have “cognition” for how a single mind thinks, but we don't have a word for what happens when human and machine intelligence work together to perceive, decide, create and act. Let’s call that process intelition. Intelition isn’t a feature; it’s the organizing principle for the next wave of software where humans and AI operate inside the same shared model of the enterprise. Today’s systems treat AI models as things you invoke from the outside. You act as a “user,” prompting for responses or wiring a “human in the loop” step into agentic workflows. But that's evolving into continuous co-production: People and agents are shaping decisions, logic and actions together, in real time. Read on for a breakdown of the three forces driving this new paradigm. A unified ontology is just the beginningIn a recent shareholder letter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp wrote that “all the value in the market is g