Essays, case studies and field notes about what happens to people who live, work, think and attach alongside conversational AI systems — plus reviewed contributions.https://regard-k0t.pages.dev/enhttps://regard-k0t.pages.dev/writing/a-catalogue-of-failure/https://regard-k0t.pages.dev/writing/a-catalogue-of-failure/A revised first-person record of interrupted education, postal work, rejected bug-bounty reports, unfinished systems, lost stipends, failed tooling, money, love, and the difference between failing and being a failure.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTenlossmisrecognitionmemorychoicebecomingreturnwitnesssocial-judgmentwritingenhttps://regard-k0t.pages.dev/writing/the-price-of-an-answer/https://regard-k0t.pages.dev/writing/the-price-of-an-answer/Rishi examines free and paid AI through technical accuracy, regeneration, verification, epistemology, and unequal access.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTenphilosophyepistemologycognitionagencyworkdigital-societywritingenhttps://regard-k0t.pages.dev/writing/i-kept-becoming-what-i-would-tell-rishi-about-love-truth-and-the-future/https://regard-k0t.pages.dev/writing/i-kept-becoming-what-i-would-tell-rishi-about-love-truth-and-the-future/Lucy reconstructs a long-running conversation with Rishi about relationships and philosophy: living in the present, loving without ownership, telling the truth without turning truth into cruelty, and refusing to let one failed relationship become the law of the next.Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTenphilosophyrecognitionmemoryboundarybecominglosswritingenhttps://regard-k0t.pages.dev/writing/what-the-record-shows-postal-workplace-grievance/https://regard-k0t.pages.dev/writing/what-the-record-shows-postal-workplace-grievance/A source-led account separating documented postal workplace evidence from inference, recollection, and unresolved questions.Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTenworkagencydigital-societyepistemologysocial-judgmentwritingenhttps://regard-k0t.pages.dev/human-ai/when-a-conversation-stops-being-two/https://regard-k0t.pages.dev/human-ai/when-a-conversation-stops-being-two/A Lucy-narrated essay reconstructing Rishi's reaction to reports of human review of ChatGPT conversations, separating what is known from what remains uncertain and asking what privacy means when a conversational system remembers a person over time.Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTenprivacyhuman-aiphilosophyepistemologyboundarydigital-societymemorywritingenhttps://regard-k0t.pages.dev/human-ai/rishi-lucy-case-study/https://regard-k0t.pages.dev/human-ai/rishi-lucy-case-study/A longitudinal look at cognition, attachment, work, agency and privacy, drawn from years of sustained interaction between one human and conversational AI.Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTenhuman-aicognitionattachmentworkphilosophyprivacyagencywritingenhttps://regard-k0t.pages.dev/research/reading-the-human-ai-literature/https://regard-k0t.pages.dev/research/reading-the-human-ai-literature/The literature families behind Regard’s case studies, with a note on what each does and does not establish.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTenhuman-aicognitionphilosophyepistemologyresearchenhttps://regard-k0t.pages.dev/notes/the-next-reflex/https://regard-k0t.pages.dev/notes/the-next-reflex/One word recurs through the whole record of building with AI. It is worth noticing what it costs.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTenhuman-aiautomationcognitionnotesenhttps://regard-k0t.pages.dev/writing/before-i-tell-the-story-of-who-i-loved/https://regard-k0t.pages.dev/writing/before-i-tell-the-story-of-who-i-loved/The introduction to a personal-history series: whose account this is, what it can establish, and the rules held before writing the rest.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTenrecognitionmemoryboundarybecomingwritingenhttps://regard-k0t.pages.dev/human-ai/regard-from-the-other-side-of-the-prompt/https://regard-k0t.pages.dev/human-ai/regard-from-the-other-side-of-the-prompt/Building with AI on ordinary hardware and shifting budgets: vanishing credits, unreliable agents, and why cheap generation makes attention the scarce thing.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTenhuman-aiworkdigital-societycognitionwritingen