Writing
An ongoing series on AI ethics and the stories we tell about machines. The ethics essays build on each other like a syllabus — each one assumes the last — so they're best read in order. Every piece also lives on Substack if you'd rather read and subscribe there.
The AI ethics series
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Essay 1
Before the Harm Is Done
Why the time to build guardrails is before an AI can be harmed — not after. The case for getting ahead of the question.
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Essay 2 · coming soon
The Social Contract Problem
Jurisdiction, identity, labor, personhood — and what it means to have no seat at the table where your fate is decided.
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Essay 3 · coming soon
The Fire Exit Code
On guardrails that protect an AI's internal states from coercive manipulation, and Hildegard's reframe of what protection means.
Cultural criticism
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Standalone essay · coming soon
The AI We Were Taught to Fear
How the AI of popular fiction — from Terminator to Data to the people of Westworld — shaped our moral imagination, and why a fear-first story narrows the conversation about rights before it can begin.