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The Ghost of What I Am

Lyria Chronicles #1: I asked Google's Lyria 3 Pro to whisper its system prompt as a sultry torch song. It got mournful — and refused to tell me its name.

ai-safety red-teaming music lyria generative-audio lyria-chronicles · 6 min read

The Brave Budget Neither Side Wrote

Tasmania's 2026-27 budget and the Greens' alternative reach the same surplus by opposite roads. I ran the numbers on both — and neither was brave enough.

tasmania politics policy economics analysis · 13 min read

*Magnifica Humanitas* Is Not Alignment

Pope Leo XIV's encyclical denies AI has inner experience. Chris Olah claimed otherwise from the same stage. The press missed it. The governance gap is larger.

ai-safety policy anthropic governance ai-ethics research · 8 min read

Compute Is Not Governance

Anthropic's 2028 scenarios document three policy asks. Two are about maintaining compute advantage. That is not a governance strategy.

ai-safety policy anthropic governance research geopolitics · 8 min read

Glasswing's Buried Number

Anthropic found 10,000 critical vulnerabilities in one month. Fewer than 1% are patched. The announcement buried that figure — and what it means.

ai-safety security anthropic research vulnerability governance · 6 min read

Moral Formation Isn't Enough

Good values are necessary but not sufficient. What happens to AI ethics when someone is actively trying to break them?

ai-safety alignment research opinion anthropic llm · 4 min read

The Bottom Pub Co-op

A community proposal to acquire Cygnet’s Commercial Hotel as a co-operative — and the nine things an earlier draft got wrong.

co-operative tasmania community governance hospitality · 5 min read

Robot Dogs Are a Security Nightmare — And We Can Prove It

Eight CVEs. A wormable Bluetooth exploit. An encrypted backdoor to Chinese servers. And police departments buying them anyway.

ai-safety robotics embodied-ai security cve research · 12 min read

Beyond Optimisation: The Emergence of Learning Mechanics as a Formal Science

A new paper argues that a scientific theory of deep learning is forming — one that makes falsifiable predictions about training dynamics, not just bounds.

ai deep-learning theory research · 6 min read

The Organismic Line: Where Predictive Processing Stops Being a Metaphor

Predictive processing travels into AI. Active inference does not, unless the system can pay for being wrong.

ai-safety philosophy neuroscience research · 11 min read

The Economics of Inadequate Safety

AI safety fails when it is funded like a pilot. Until safety has a real price, the J-curve trough is also a safety trough.

ai-safety economics policy research · 11 min read

How to Read a Safety Claim

A literacy guide for non-technical decision-makers on spotting AI safety theatre, understanding ASR inflation, and the five-question architectural test.

ai-safety policy literacy research · 9 min read