Argumentative, idea-driven writing that takes a position and defends it. Essays are where we work through the harder questions that research papers leave open.
The conflation of technical safety research with policy regulation has muddied both fields. They share concerns but operate on different timescales, with different tools, for different audiences.
Regulators and courts often aspire to write technology-neutral rules. The argument here is that this aspiration, while understandable, frequently produces worse outcomes than honest technology-specific reasoning.
A critique of the regulatory philosophy that treats market deployment as the primary mechanism for identifying harm, and the populations that approach systematically disadvantages.
The word "open" is doing enormous work in AI policy debates. This essay tries to disaggregate the term and ask which version of openness actually matters for accountability and access.