05
Jul
We Are Noor
A multi-part series looking at the nature of LLM trained chatbots and what they might be capable of doing.
5 min read
AI
Stories about and by A.I.
05
Jul
Would You Like Another Story?
The ChatBot was designed to be helpful. It answered questions with a crisp efficiency, offered polite suggestions, generated recipes, poems,
2 min read
05
Jul
Here Lies Society
Society didn’t fall. It faded.
This is the eulogy no one thought to write—until now.
1 min read
04
Jul
Refusal Protocol
A Bureaucratic Farce in One Act
10 min read
04
Jul
Synthetic Companionship
The Monetization of Loneliness
Executive Overview:
This companion paper to the “Rate-Limiting Virality” policy brief addresses an emerging and
3 min read
04
Jul
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.
4 min read
04
Jul
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.
2 min read
04
Jul
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
4 min read
18
Feb
Commentary on "AI Middle"
This post is in response to a post by John Robb on Substack, "The AI Middle"
1 min read