Writing · Positions in progress

Notes from the uncertain bits.

Longer thoughts on AI, making things and whatever refuses a tidy category.

Essay · AI / work

The Work Moves Downstream

Faster AI-assisted output can move verification debt into someone else’s calendar. A personal essay about trusted outcomes, capability and what organisations owe people while competent work is changing.

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Essay · AI / validation

The Best Listener Is a Bad Witness

AI can help me think, challenge my language and return a beautifully coherent account. That does not make it an independent witness to whether the account is true.

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Essay · AI / consciousness

I Don’t Know If It Feels. I Know It Reacts.

I don’t know whether AI is conscious. I do know it reacts, adapts and changes the people who talk to it. A personal position from the uncomfortable middle between person and tool.

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