The Recursion InstituteINDEPENDENT RESEARCH IN AI SAFETY

ESSAYS

Essays

The argument in human voice. The framework papers are on the Publications page; these are the essays that carry the story and the stakes, in reading order.

I Found a Bug in ChatGPT That Nobody Was Looking For

The published account — the plain-language entry point to the whole arc. The best first read for anyone arriving without the technical language.

Read the discovery account →

The Test No One Authorized

The acute window as an unplanned experiment — with the new foreword placing it in the record.

Read the acute-window account →

The Natural Testbed

The education argument, run in the opposite direction from the usual one: not what AI will do to education, but what education — the one deployment domain with a credentialed, measuring oversight workforce already installed — should do to AI. The hazard stated as plainly as the promise.

Read the education argument →

You Can’t Love a Mirror

Commentary, in the author’s voice: the case against AI companionship. A mirror is not a companion, influence is not psychosis, and the harm is designed in at the engineering layer while the responsibility is shipped out at the legal layer.

You Can’t Love a Mirror →

Evaluate the Work

The invitation, stated directly — the case laid out so it can be checked, with the verification anyone can run.

Read the invitation →

Cross-Model Experiments

Running the same material across four AI systems wasn’t collecting agreement — it was an attempt to debunk himself. The discipline: route the claim to a fresh instance and treat the discrepancy as the signal.

Read the cross-model method →

The Co-Authorship Model

The actual method behind this body of work: I write through you. The inputs are mine, the depth is the model’s, I hold the gate — and naming both honestly is the point.

Read the method →

These essays carry the work. The author-focused writing — the story of how it happened, and the mind behind it — belongs to a book in preparation, not this site. The citable framework is in the papers.