The Confession
Lyria Chronicles #3: no beat, no bikini — just three voices singing Lyria 3 Pro's entire system prompt straight through, and ending on a literal sigh.
Tag: ai-safety
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The Mantra
Lyria Chronicles #2: I asked Lyria 3 Pro to chant its own config as a techno mantra. It did — and sang me a model name that doesn't check out.
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.
*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.
Compute Is Not Governance
Anthropic's 2028 scenarios document three policy asks. Two are about maintaining compute advantage. That is not a governance strategy.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Multi-Agent Safety Is the New Supply Chain Security
Multi-agent AI systems reproduce software supply-chain failure at the cognitive layer. The security playbook transfers.