Writing archive

Earlier essays.

These pieces are older and exploratory in nature, touching on model security, reward hacking, red-team incentives, biosecurity governance, and how technical systems shape real-world risk.

AGI / Model security

AGI Model Weight Theft is Realistic

Why model weights should be treated as high-value infrastructure and not just files.

Reward hacking

Why Reward Hacking is More Dangerous Than it Seems

A bridge between technical failure modes and the systems that incentivize them.

Biosecurity

Building a Backbone for Benchtop Synthesizer Governance

Governance thinking at the boundary of cyber, biosecurity, and emerging tooling.

Sycophancy / Societal risk

Managing Expectations in a Self-Echoic World

How LLM encouragement can distort expectations in real-world, high-stakes situations.

Red teaming

The Dual-Use Nature of AI Red Teaming Competitions

How adversarial discovery can improve safeguards while also creating information hazards.