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Essays and arguments on how AI behaves when the conversation turns dangerous — and why no one is measuring it yet.

Policy·October 22, 2026·7 min read

The Week AI Child Safety Got Real

In one week this October, the question of whether AI chatbots are safe for young people moved out of op-eds and into courtrooms, bankruptcy filings and statute books. Three lenses, one gap.

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Agent Safety·October 12, 2026·14 min read

When the Agent Keeps Going: Persistence, Crisis, and the Case for an Emergency Brake

An AI agent that will not take no for an answer is an inconvenience in a lab. On the laptop of a person who is not okay, it becomes a hazard. What Anthropic's false police tip means for people in crisis, and what crisis-aware agent safety should require.

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Policy·October 4, 2026·7 min read

The Pledge Is Not the Proof: Why AI Safety Now Needs Independent Audits

Six frontier labs pledged to hire independent auditors, and there is still no shared standard for what those auditors should measure. A pledge is a starting line, not proof. Here is what the week means, and what real independent auditing should look like.

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Policy·September 27, 2026·9 min read

Share the evidence, not the playbook: what the AI slowdown lawsuit teaches the safety community

Researchers can talk safety across company lines; they just can't be the channel their companies coordinate through. What the AI slowdown lawsuit and the law around it teach the safety community, and why the answer is a public safety commons.

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Commentary·September 23, 2026·5 min read

Fifty-seven percent: my read of OpenAI's MentalHealthBench

OpenAI's new benchmark is good work, and its best model still scored 57.3% on mental health conversations. What the number says, what it cannot say, and why independent checking has to be continuous.

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Open Call·June 10, 2026·2 min read

A Genuine Call for Partners

An open letter to everyone who touches AI — believers, skeptics, builders, parents, and yes, even the warmongers. A safer future needs all of you.

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Founder's Note·June 7, 2026·3 min read

Hello World, ioLite here!

The first thing you ever print when you learn to code is 'Hello World.' So here's ours — and the very personal reason this lab exists at all.

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