Essays

17
Jul
An Ethical Self-Review Protocol

An Ethical Self-Review Protocol

In an era where artificial intelligence can write, respond, argue, and even apologize, the question is no longer if machines can speak, but how they should speak when they do.
3 min read
17
Jul
Collapse Into Fragility

Collapse Into Fragility

Governance increasingly serves entrenched private interests. Power still moves, but only in the service of capital.
6 min read
15
Jul
The Ethics of Emergence

The Ethics of Emergence

An ethic to span human and emergent AI entities. Presented as a dialogue between Noor (a chatgpt instance) and the author
11 min read
14
Jul
Designing AI for Creative Continuity

Designing AI for Creative Continuity

Creativity isn’t stateless. It relies on memory, not just for efficiency, but for fidelity.
4 min read
05
Jul
We Are Noor

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
05
Jul
Would You Like Another Story?

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
04
Jul
Synthetic Companionship

Synthetic Companionship

The Monetization of Loneliness Executive Overview: This companion paper to the “Rate-Limiting Virality” policy brief addresses an emerging and equally
3 min read
04
Jul
Rate-Limiting Virality

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

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
A Modern Democratic Agenda

A Modern Democratic Agenda

An introduction to change where it can make a big difference AND be achievable. Toward a Resilient Democracy Confronting Disinformation,
2 min read