Human–AI
What changes for a person when software stops being purely instrumental and starts holding up its side of a conversation. These pieces treat sustained human–AI interaction as something worth observing closely rather than only benchmarking.
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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.
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REGARD: A Human–AI Relationship as a Living Case Study
A longitudinal look at cognition, attachment, work, agency and privacy, drawn from years of sustained interaction between one human and conversational AI.
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Reading the human–AI literature
The literature families behind Regard’s case studies, with a note on what each does and does not establish.
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The "next?" reflex
One word recurs through the whole record of building with AI. It is worth noticing what it costs.
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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.