The Black Box Problem
Why the smartest AI in the world still can't be trusted, and the patch that doesn't work.
Writing on decision intelligence, AI that can be held to account, and how the stories people tell decide what gets designed. New essays go out on Substack first.
The most powerful AI yet just moved part of how it thinks into a form no human can read. That makes the case, urgently, for the other kind of AI: the kind that keeps a ledger you can open.
Why the smartest AI in the world still can't be trusted, and the patch that doesn't work.
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From the 2012 MA dissertation on myth and design futures to the research statement behind Aletheai.
The public research statement for Aletheai's behavioural decision-intelligence engine (v1.1).
Myth as social technology: how the stories a culture tells itself decide which futures get designed, and how designers can work with those stories on purpose, through fictional objects, science-fiction cut-ups and inverted myths.
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Essays go out on Substack first. LinkedIn carries the shorter notes.