Systems Reform

The Wrong Variable

There is a question everyone asks about AI and one almost nobody asks about us. Will the system be aligned gets asked constantly, in every register, by people who disagree about nearly everything

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

Harm Taxonomies Are Political Instruments.

Online harm taxonomies, the categorizations of what digital platforms and AI systems do to people, are having a political moment. The Biden administration built them into federal AI governance. The Trump administration is