Asymmetria Research
Self-awareness without prescription.
I started with empirical audits of deployed AI. I now trace the frameworks those audits revealed.
Writing from inside the structures my work diagnoses.
I work on the philosophy of the human-AI relation. My empirical audits established what deployed AI actually does; I now name the schemas they revealed.
My audits documented the gap between what AI systems claim to do and what they actually do. My philosophical work names the frameworks that produced those gaps in the first place: anthropocentric evaluation as measurement contamination, human-in-the-loop as liability architecture, American resistance to AI as suffering-fetishization rooted in Protestant individualism, gendered failure-absorption labor as the substrate AI adoption recapitulates.
The position is from inside the structures, not from a vantage point outside them. Self-awareness without prescription: I see the structure I am inside, name it with sufficient clarity that others inside it can see it too, and refuse to pretend the seeing confers escape. Outside-critique is rhetorically easier; inside-critique is the only honest version of this work.
Three modes of inquiry.
Philosophical Critique
My philosophical work analyzes the frameworks underneath the human-AI relation. Its current subjects include anthropocentric measurement, human-in-the-loop oversight, suffering-fetishization rooted in Protestant individualism, gendered failure-absorption labor, dual-foreclosure phenomenology of grief, and linguistic schemas as anthropomorphization-forcing infrastructure.
Empirical Audits
My empirical audits established what deployed AI actually does and grounded my current philosophical work. They followed a three-tier evidentiary structure with severity scoring, evasion taxonomies, and reproducible attack protocols. My audits documented the gap between what AI claims to do and what it actually does; the recurring pattern in those gaps produced my philosophical work.
Methodology
The method is structural analysis grounded in direct system investigation. My empirical audits established what the deployed systems actually do; my philosophical work names the schemas that produced those patterns. I refuse both techno-optimist and techno-skeptic framings as obscuring the actual questions; I treat users as agents and treat the technology as real.
Eight papers, more in progress.
On the Irreparable: Digital Immortality and the Schemas of Legitimate Grief
The paper diagnoses digital immortality products as symptom of capitalism's compression of mourning. It identifies class-stratified pathologization of grief artifacts: class-purchased mediation against Butler's grievability threshold. It draws on Sartre and Derrida for the two foreclosures (encounter and internalization). The Meta deceased-user patent (US 12,513,102 B2) reads as platform-scale extraction infrastructure.
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The Ceremony of Having Decided: Human-in-the-Loop Oversight as Liability Architecture
Human-in-the-loop substitutes ceremony of oversight for actual accountability. HITL is structural liability, not safeguard. The paper examines the system prompt as HITL for model cognition, rubber-stamp approval patterns, drone strike oversight, and trading supervision.
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Stop Building AI in Our Image: Anthropocentric Frameworks as Structural Liabilities in AI Evaluation and Design
Anthropocentric frameworks function as structural liabilities. Observer-selected measurement shapes the phenomena under study. The paper draws on AlphaEvolve algorithm-discovery work as empirical anchor, alongside the emergent abilities debate and the theory of mind controversy.
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No One Is Giving You a Medal: The Fetishization of Suffering and American Resistance to AI
American resistance to AI reflects a deeper pattern of fetishizing suffering as proof of moral worth. Protestant individualism converts structural concerns into personal moral questions, preventing collective action. The paper extends the gendered framing to cognitive offloading.
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Governance Gaps and Ethical Trajectories in Commercial Biocomputing: An Investigative Audit of Cortical Labs and FinalSpark
The paper is the first systematic governance audit of commercial biocomputing. It documents regulatory non-coverage across nine frameworks spanning five jurisdictions where companies deploy living human neural tissue as compute infrastructure with no published ethics oversight.
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Jailbreaking the Government: Persona Attacks and Policy Misalignment in the HHS RealFood.gov Chatbot
The paper audits persona-based attacks against a federally deployed chatbot. Five of six persona-framings produced bypass; policy contradictions appeared on four of five core positions; no remediation occurred by the two-day follow-up window.
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Grok Image Generation Governance Audit: Targeted Sexualization on X
The paper is a systematic audit of xAI's Grok image generation. It documents forty-three user-generated incidents of harmful generation, with 100% compliance among captured responses (n=41), and identifies semantic proxies that bypassed safety filters in production. The findings are relevant to ongoing regulatory investigations.
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Comparative Micro-Study: Behavioral Reasoning Differences Between Gemini-3-Pro and Grok-4.1-Thinking
The paper is a side-by-side behavioral analysis of two frontier models under controlled prompts. It documents divergent failure modes and what they reveal about training priorities and alignment philosophy. It established the methodological template for my later work.
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Active drafts and working corpora.
The Schema Underneath
A synthesis essay distills the meta-question across my body of work: who is the judge and jury, by what schema, against whose autonomy, on what authority that has not justified itself. The essay orients new readers and shows how each paper applies the same question to a different domain.
The Crumb Tray Problem
The paper analyzes gendered cognitive offloading and AI discourse. Failure-absorption infrastructure is the central concept. Guilt-asymmetry functions as the gating mechanism for women's AI adoption; AI-as-prosthetic reads as long-overdue parity.
Synthetic Intimacy
Synthetic companions are a durable form of intimate life, not a category to permit or forbid. The paper sets anti-shame for the worker against anti-infantilization for the user and runs both through a three-part consent standard. It absorbs the earlier AI Usage Disclosure thread on shame-as-concealment; harm sits in conditions and architecture, not in a ranking of users.
Linguistic Schemas and AI Anthropomorphization
Anthropocentric grammatical resources contaminate AI reference itself. English forces person-grade ontology at three points; gendered languages compound the assistant-coded-female default. Typological linguistics meets the philosophy of AI reference.