AI for Human Agency
I'm interested in AI as a form of leverage: tools that help people think more clearly, create more independently, and direct their own lives with less dependence on external systems.
About Me
Hi there! I'm Jengkuen, currently a CS undergrad based in Singapore 🇸🇬
I operate at the intersection of Philosophy, Cognitive Science and Engineering. I'm interested in intelligence not just as a technical frontier, but as a lever for human agency.
Focus Areas
Cognitive Architectures
World models and agentic AI are at the center of this interest, especially the kinds of architectures that make systems more coherent, adaptive, and capable over time.
The Philosopher-Builder
This is an ongoing project to articulate a builder archetype suited to the age of AI — one that brings philosophical depth to questions of intelligence, agency, meaning, and what should be built.
The Bigger Picture
Perhaps the greatest modern tragedy is that we are taught to postpone life. We learnt to treat our most meaningful interests as secondary to the systems that secure our survival, as if life must first be earned before it can be lived. Work becomes a necessity. Meaning becomes an afterthought.
I am interested in how AI changes the basic economics of agency. If new tools democratize capabilities once locked behind the scale of organizations, then independent value creation may become viable at a scale never before possible. In that world, solo entrepreneurship is not merely a career path. It is a structural expression of human agency.
My work is driven by the question of how we can use AI to become more capable and independent creators of value, so that work, meaning, and belonging no longer need to be so sharply divided. I want to build tools, ideas, and systems that make a more agentic and humane way of living economically viable.