Writing
Essays and notes
Essays on who decides, and on what follows. Some began as editions of The Consent Report.
- 15 October 2026Universal Basic Income: Will It Set Us Free?When the people building AI also propose a basic income, the useful question is what the payment solves, and what a person actually owns when the machines do the work.
- 9 September 2026The Consent ReportAn Anthropic Insider Just Confirmed It: There Is No PlanA resignation, and a public reply from Anthropic's alignment lead, put a number on the risk and said there is no plan for the scenario that worries them.
- EssayInnocent Until the Algorithm Says OtherwiseCourts are being asked to trust machine accusations and to doubt recordings at the same time. The extra weight is landing on the person least able to carry it.
- NoteNvidia is funding the companies that buy its chipsA short note on Nvidia investing in the companies that then spend on Nvidia hardware, and why that makes demand harder to read.
- EssayThe Off Switch: How National Security Took Control of a Public AI ModelA dispute between Anthropic and the US government showed that the power to switch a public model off can run in both directions, without a public rule for either.