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Essays on AI agents, autonomous systems, and the humans asked to trust them.
After Search: Who Decides What Is Worth Discovering?
LLM search can enlarge the space of questions while shrinking the visible space of answers. What happens when discovery itself is delegated?
Uhh.. who was supposed to do the science again?
Will AI agents help us do more science or better science?
The Rise of Agentic AI: What It Means for Human Work
AI systems have begun to act, not merely answer. Work changes when software enters the workflow.
Human-Centered Design in the Age of Autonomous Systems
Human-centered design assumed the interface would wait for us. Agents do not.
Memory, Context, and the Long Arc of Agent Cognition
An agent that cannot remember remains useful in the way a brilliant stranger can be useful.