Essays

Each essay begins with a concrete question. Rather than providing definitive answers, it examines the underlying question more carefully in order to improve orientation in complex situations. Every essay can be read independently.

• What Does “Right” Mean for a Personal Agent?
• Do We Have to Turn Uncertainty into Urgency?
• What Talking with a Language Model Has Taught Me About Thinking
• What Is at Stake in a Conversation
• Beyond Constitutional AI
• Do We Really Need to Trust the AfD?
• Do We Need to Trust an AI Model?
• Why I Am a Member of the VdK
• What It Means to Hold a Voluntary Office
• On trust
• What szegedi.info Wants to Be
• Collaboration Under Asymmetry
• The Fourth Blow — What If We Simply Accept It?
• What Happens When Individuals Can Suddenly Think Institutionally?
• The Snake Pit Doesn’t Need Snakes
• The Inherited Alignment Problem