Jen

Jen

The Vocabulary of Impunity

The most consequential errors in institutional life are rarely accidents. They follow a pattern: internal knowledge, external denial, and a public discourse trained to stop short of the obvious conclusion. We have developed

The Appearance of Nourishment

There is a version of nutritional communication so basic it should be unremarkable: food is substrate. Your body is made of cells; cells require specific inputs to function. Providing those inputs is maintenance

In the Absence of Reason

There is a pattern I keep running into. I’ve implied it and written around it, but it is time to be more direct. A researcher observes a behavioral output in an AI

The Wrong Benchmark

What AI Governance Gets Wrong Before It Gets Anything Right AI governance discourse has a baseline problem, and it is prior to both the technical problems and the regulatory problems; it is epistemic.

Foundations of Sand

How category errors in AI research lead to regulatory failure The most consequential errors in AI discourse are not the obvious ones. They are the ones that survive peer review, get cited in