Thinking in Chaos: My New Apps Are Ready for You

A follow-up to my Preventive Chaotic Intelligence article: two bilingual tools to explore risk and creativity

Jun 26, 2025

Dear explorers,

Good morning from another day of discovery. Just three days ago, I shared with you the most refined version of my methodology, Preventive Chaotic Intelligence (ICP), inspired by Chaos Theory. It's a fascinating idea, perhaps, and one that has absorbed much of my recent energy.

But, as you know, I’m not interested in leaving ideas just on paper.

In the last few feverish weeks, I've immersed myself in an almost obsessive creative process. Guided by an intuition and armed with a tenacious ignorance of coding (as I recounted in my first experiment, "Chaos Detective"), I decided to build an interactive laboratory. I've acted as an orchestra conductor, a bridge between the vision and its realisation, dialoging with various artificial intelligences to translate my ideas into a functioning application.

The result is a prototype I call the "ICP Explorer".
It's essential to emphasise that this is a small-scale experiment. It's the proof-of-concept, the spark. My ultimate vision is a system of gigantic computational power, capable of analysing thousands upon thousands of "risk horizons" in parallel to map the entirety of a system's vulnerabilities. To build that kind of infrastructure, of course, would require resources and investment of an entirely different order of magnitude.

But today, the lab in its embryonic form opens its doors. And the results of the first tests have been... unexpected.
I don't want to spoil too much for you, because the beauty is that you'll try it for yourselves. But to give you a taste of its power, I decided to challenge it with Julio Cortázar's short story "Axolotl." The result was staggering: it translated a literary metaphor into a risk analysis for our digital future, even coining a new, wonderfully sinister term: ATCNS (Anomaly of Non-Reportable Consciousness Transfer).

I fed a machine a poem, and it returned a manual on cyber-risk.

You can explore this first powerful prototype, available in both English and Italian, here:
Enter the Lab: Try the ICP Explorer

A side note (and a not-so-subtle one at that)... On the topic of "Axolotl",... that story by Cortázar fascinated me so much that it became the seed for a film treatment I've been pitching to several production companies for a few months. And since I know, from my analytics, that some of these production companies are assiduous followers of this newsletter (you know who you are), well... what can I say? Receiving your feedback would be both interesting and greatly appreciated. But let's get back to it.

The Complete Chaos Exploration Suite

The ICP Explorer is the main event, but the gateway to this world remains my first digital "child," the "Chaos Detective". It has also been enhanced and is now fully bilingual (English and Italian). If the Explorer is the strategic laboratory, the Detective is the dojo for training your intuition to see hidden connections. I continue to use a different engine (the brilliant Qwen3 30B) for it, because exploring the different "personalities" of AI is an integral part of my research.

You can sharpen your investigative instincts here:
Train Your Mind: Play with Chaos Detective

Next Steps: From Gaming to Governance

For me, these "games" are the first tangible and interactive complements to my theoretical work. They are meant to be attached to my papers, proposals, and applications for fellowships and academic collaborations that I am pursuing. Now I can say: "This is my idea (Custos AI, ICP). And here is a way to experience it."

And, as always, this invitation extends to this entire wonderful community. If this approach intrigues you, if you see potential synergies, or if you simply want to challenge the ICP Explorer with a scenario close to your heart, please contact me. On LinkedIn or at my email, cosmicdancerpodcast@gmail.com.

Now, it's your turn. Enter the lab. And let me know what you discover in the chaos.

With gratitude and a certain dose of feverish curiosity,
Cristiano