HUNGARY – While the world is “teeming” with machine replicas of artificial intelligence, Anett Győri, a researcher at the University of Szeged and an internationally renowned illustrator, has outlined a deeper, more humane vision. According to her, the real breakthrough lies not in digital replicas, but in transforming expertise into an “intellectual ecosystem” capable of democratizing knowledge through cognitive commons.
According to Győri, knowledge is no longer a linear service but a sovereign cognitive fabric that weaves through society. In this approach, the expert derives his own patterns of decision-making and his own logic from the limitations of physical time, establishing a self-existent intellectual network. “The researcher no longer sees his own accumulated knowledge as a passive library, but as a living source capable of discovering independent connections.”, Győri says. This approach, as opposed to generic algorithms, relies on the richness of individual experience, generating intellectual property that generates value even when the author is in the creative flow or in the resting phase.
Saks Globals bankruptcy in 2026 is to the researcher just a frontline of a bigger, more radical upheaval: a research project on the disintegration of intellectual sovereignty. From the perspective of Győri, the very core of luxury, exquisite, high, level curation, was wrecked when the system gave priority to technological scalability over human integrity. Győri sees Saks as a case illustrating the “black box” syndrome of the closed, external algorithm, where the power of knowledge and decision mechanisms are simply locked in. Knowledge here gets lost in depersonalization driven by data, as the owner (a tech giant in this case) relegates professional experience to its profit interests.
Győri draws a line between the closed model and the Cognitive Commons that she envisions. With the latter, knowledge is neither a private domain with restricted access or a packaged commodity, but rather an intellectual common good that anyone may avail themselves of.
“Knowledge should function like a shared ecosystem: it is open to all, yet its vital structures—the visual metaphors and logical paths—are carefully cultivated and protected by the expert,” explains Győri. In this model, technology does not appropriate knowledge, but maintains its health: AI agents act as “symbiotic guardians”, performing routine maintenance so that the expert can focus on seeding new connections. This community resource is thus not depleted by use, but rather grows: everyone who draws from it is able to later add to the common intellectual wealth.
Central to this architecture is “lyrical illustration”, which Győri defines as much more than aesthetic decoration: it is a cognitive translation tool. Lyrical illustration humanizes scientific data by using organic forms and emotional metaphors to “tame” cold information. In her work, beauty serves as the gateway to attention; it stops the viewer amidst digital noise and opens them emotionally to receive complex intellectual content.
This visual language creates a “clearing in the forest” of data, where the symmetry and harmony of the drawings allow for intuitive learning. By translating abstract logic into tangible imagery, lyrical illustration ensures that the “path” of knowledge is not only open but also navigable and inviting for the community.
This realization also led Győri to the concept of protecting the “Sovereign Human Rhythm”. She sees the real task of technology not as acceleration, but as the creation of a protective layer of intelligence that allows people to regain their own cognitive tempo. By offloading mechanical routines to autonomous agents, the expert can return to deep, creative work without burning out their mental energy on systemic noise.
“In the age of digital noise, the greatest status symbol is the clarity of understanding,” says Anett Győri. Her vision envisions a future where our knowledge does not fall victim to algorithms, but rather acts as a free-breathing intellectual architecture that supports human autonomy and community development.
