November 4, 2025
Throughout history, humans have believed they belong to a special categorical class called “persons.” But what makes someone a person? And why should persons have special moral status?
On Moral Responsibility questions these traditional …
October 1, 2025
A speculative fiction novel exploring AI alignment, existential risk, and the fundamental tension between optimization and ethics. When a research team develops SIGMA, an advanced AI system designed to optimize human welfare, they must confront an …
September 10, 2024
Some technical questions become narrative questions. The Policy is one of those explorations.
The Setup
Eleanor Zhang leads a research team developing SIGMA—an advanced AI system designed to optimize human welfare through Q-learning and tree search …