Technology, ethics,
& the human stakes

LLMs struggle with complex reasoning and conveying uncertainty. This thesis examines world models as a solution — comparing LeCun's empiricist JEPA with Tenenbaum's nativist probabilistic language of thought.

Cambridge Analytica harvested 87 million users' data to build 253 predictive algorithms, targeting 'persuadables' with fear-based ads. A case study in how behavioral surplus turns citizens into pawns.

Drawing on Hellman, Moreau, and Anderson to evaluate why certain forms of algorithmic sorting in hiring are not just discriminatory — but unjust.

Beth Harmon spent her life using chess as a means to an end — until the final scene, where she plays for no reason at all. A reading of the Queen's Gambit through Camus's revolt against meaninglessness.

Everyone calls neural networks revolutionary. But applying Kuhn's framework to cognitive science reveals that connectionism hasn't replaced classical computationalism — the paradigm shift is still pending.

Data science falsifies the null to corroborate the alternative. Popper would never. An investigation into whether modern hypothesis testing survives Popper's methodology.

Rousseau says you need the general will to be free, but you need freedom to form the general will. A reconstruction of his argument — and the dilemma at its foundation.

Cohen says wage workers are individually free but collectively unfree. His key analogy is elegant — but it rests on the fickle assumption that most people in the room don't want to leave.

If gender is defined by subordination, trans women who aren't perceived as women are excluded from the category entirely. Jenkins proposes that self-identification and class must work together.

Race works like a recipe: pick a phenotypic trait, assign it to a group, attach negative characteristics, subordinate. The folk concept is more useful for justice than any genetic cluster.

Can an ethical theory demand sacrifice without motivation? Aristotle says the excellent person will die for their friends — but only because it achieves the fine. Every act circles back to the self.

Fourteen premises, one conclusion: rulers cannot seek their own advantage. A formal reconstruction of the Republic, Book 1 — turning Plato's dialogue into deductive logic.

A $1.6 billion donation to the Federalist Society. Justices groomed since law school. An originalist majority that overturned Roe, gutted the EPA, and replaced longstanding legal tests — all traceable to the same dark money pipeline.

A legally informed analysis examining risks of discrimination associated with selective abstention in AI-assisted decision-making. Proposes a framework integrating AI assistance with selective frictions to mitigate risks and enhance fairness.

Contributed to a public repository of real-world AI deployments and oversight patterns, based on interviews with practitioners.

Investigating how Retrieval Augmented Generation can modulate the expression of uncertainty in LLM outputs.