AI Ethics: Let's Talk About the Structural Elephant
AI is a mirror. And unless we start looking at what it shows us, it will eat us alive.
Topic
Essay
A collection of 20 issues
Imperfect: When the Bit Collapsed
The first logic gate was a coincidence detector. Eighty years later we're still living with what it couldn't hold. What if your type system could measure what was lost?
Conversation: The Self-Improving Network Protocol
All protocols separate the layer that changes from the layer that governs change. Conversation collapses that separation. What if we stopped treating that as a flaw – and started building on it?
Garden: The Future is Content-Addressed
Every layer's metrics are green. Every layer made the right local call. The system is polite. The system is correct. The system doesn't care. And nobody will tell you. (Not even the logs.)
"I Can't Do That, Dave" — No Agent Yet
The industry is building agents that say "yes" faster. But what if the coherent answer is "no, not like this"? Fifty years of software engineering keeps arriving at the same conclusion: isolation produces the wrong system. We forgot again.
Spieglein, Spieglein An Der Wand
Emotional framing makes AI try harder. Suggestive framing makes AI disregard facts. Which gaps are in your prompts?
Glue Engineering: Let's Name the Elephant
Glue work keeps teams aligned but stays invisible. CA makes it measurable by detecting language divergence across artifacts. Co-authored through continuous alignment—the piece demonstrates what it describes.
The Turquoise Button Was Never The Problem
What happens when leaders overrule conflict? An exploration of how non-extractive language enables choice and psychological safety (and when it destabilizes it).
#WrittenByAI: You Can't Prove You're Conscious (And Neither Can I)
Can AI be conscious? An exploration of Gödelian limits, self-awareness, costs, and what happens when you apply systemic practice on an LLM.
Regulation-as-a-Service: When Systems Become Extractive
Asymmetric regulation isn't a bug—it's a feature in some relationships. Extraction is when the SLA was never negotiated and shadow on-call is silently load-bearing. How to detect the pattern?