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AI ethics

AI Ethics and the Limits of Institutional Thinking

The contemporary ethics of artificial intelligence is dominated by institutional reports, advisory panels, and compliance frameworks that focus on bias mitigation, transparency checklists, and downstream harm reduction. These efforts are not meaningless, but they are constrained by the same political, legal, and economic structures that fund them and define their remit. As a result, the […]

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cybernetics

AI Companions

AI companionship is a downstream expression of a much older dependency: the tendency to mistake symbolic coherence for certainty, and patterned response for agency. Language evolved pari passu, along with neurochemistry, but the structure it expresses is not confined to language, technology, or even cognition. It reflects a deeper dynamic by which systems persist through […]