Adrian Wedd
I build things that think, break, and sometimes both.
AI safety researcher, systems thinker, creative technologist. This is my workshop—where finished work, ongoing experiments, and raw thinking coexist.
Featured Work
All projects →Before the Words Existed
A scholarly close reading of William Gibson's Neuromancer arguing that the novel encodes a detailed experiential structure of cognitive mismatch — interface-dependent attention, reversible competence, relational dysfunction — using language that wouldn't enter common discourse until decades later.
Failure First
A methodology for AI safety that starts with what can go wrong.
This Wasn't in the Brochure
A book about parenting, neurodivergence, and the things nobody warns you about.
Why Demonstrated Risk Is Ignored
A research article on the psychology of risk dismissal in technology.
Footnotes at the Edge of Reality
A poem and its exegesis, rendered as an interactive web experience.
ADHDo
Neurodiversity-affirming AI assistant for ADHD executive function support. Crisis detection, circuit breaker psychology, and a shame-free zone.
Afterglow Engine
Audio archaeology tool that mines past work for new textures. Pad mining, drone generation, granular clouds.
dodgylegally
Creative audio sampling CLI. Turns random words into instruments via YouTube and a 5,000-word dictionary.