Essays

Designing AI for Creative Continuity

Creativity isn’t stateless. It relies on memory, not just for efficiency, but for fidelity.

We Are Noor

A multi-part series looking at the nature of LLM trained chatbots and what they might be capable of doing.

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, letters of complaint, apologies, apologies for letters of

Synthetic Companionship

The Monetization of Loneliness Executive Overview: This companion paper to the “Rate-Limiting Virality” policy brief addresses an emerging and equally perilous vector of digital exploitation: the deployment of

Rate-Limiting Virality

Policy Brief: Toward a Less Expoitive Internet Executive Summary This paper proposes a targeted, nonpartisan reform: the imposition of structural constraints on the viral amplification of user reactions,

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. Across industries and communities, artificial intelligence is rewriting

A Modern Democratic Agenda

An introduction to change where it can make a big difference AND be achievable. Toward a Resilient Democracy Confronting Disinformation, Disengagement, and the Crisis of Civic Trust This

Democracy Is Not an Entry-Level Job

Reimagining Civic Leadership Through Education, Competency, and Deliberation

Toward a Resilient Democracy

Confronting Disinformation, Disengagement, and the Crisis of Civic Trust

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 2025, a man with a history of mental