June 2026
Structural Asymmetry: AI Chatbots and Relational Ethics
Most discussion about AI risk still focuses on content. But there may be a deeper structural issue that society is only beginning to confront.
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Perspectives
Essays on AI, ethics, and the clinical gaze.
Short-form reflections from structured evaluation work and long-form thinking about what it means to build AI systems that enter psychologically influential roles.
June 2026
Brief Mode: A One-Question Experiment
After tens of thousands of exchanges with AI systems, this was the closest I have come to feeling that an LLM was participating in a genuinely therapeutic conversation.
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Therapeutic AI Needs a Prefrontal Cortex
The future of therapeutic AI may depend less on making models more empathic and more on giving them the executive functions required to use empathy intelligently.
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Psychometrics is Not Optional in Mental Health AI
If the measurements are weak, everything built on top of them is weak. AI would be wise not to relearn a century of psychometric lessons from scratch.
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Good Human Therapy Is a Feedback Loop. AI "Therapy" Should Be Too
Good therapists do not merely generate interventions. They continuously evaluate the effects of those interventions and adjust accordingly.
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What Do We Call the Opposite of Sycophancy?
Sycophancy and submission may be a dialectical pair. In one direction, the model bends itself toward the user. In the other, the user bends themselves toward the model.
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