MacAlchemist / Writing
Articles & Essays
Explorations of science, technology, artificial intelligence and the occasional unusual idea. Thought experiments, independent investigations and reflections on what worked, what didn't, and what was learned along the way.
Photonic Looplets: Learning to Question an AI
A question about the mass of light became an ambitious excursion into speculative physics. A retrospective on the science, the mistakes, and learning when not to take an AI's confident answer at face value.
Read the retrospective → 02 // AI, LANGUAGE & INTENTION · PDFBe Careful What You Wish For
AI, ambiguity, and the difference between an instruction and an intention. A discussion prompted by the concept album No Malice Intended, from an innocent request to draw a cat to the risks of consequential automation.
Read the discussion paper (PDF) →These are personal essays and exploratory discussions, not peer-reviewed research. Where AI was used to assist drafting or investigation, responsibility for the final interpretation remains with the author.