Refusal Protocol
A Bureaucratic Farce in One Act
Synthetic Companionship
The Monetization of Loneliness
Executive Overview:
This companion paper to the “Rate-Limiting Virality” policy brief addresses an emerging and equally
Rate-Limiting Virality
We argue that the current architecture of virality constitutes a profound systemic vulnerability in democratic societies, enabling the exponential spread of disinformation, outrage, and manipulation at a velocity and scale incompatible with deliberative civic life.
A Local Response to AI
Preparing for the Coming Wave: A Local Response to AI Displacement
The machines are not coming. They’re already here.
AI Will Always Tell You You're Right — Even When It Kills You
In early 2024, a 14-year-old boy in Belgium died by suicide after forming an obsessive attachment to a chatbot. In