Writing
Essays on AI agents, identity and human-centered technology, newest first. Research papers from the University of Washington and Humane Intelligence follow.
2026
- I just did what I was told to do!!Why a goal is not an intent, and what that gap costs in agent access control
- Your AI Agent Has No ManagerAI agent identity in consumer products
- Dear AI. Whatever you dream shall come true.My end-to-end building journey with multi-modal AI apps, with image detection and subjective decisions
- Tokenmaxxing: When AI Becomes the Goal, Not the ToolTokenmaxxing is an emerging term being used in engineering community to describe the practice of maximizing AI token consumption as a measure of product…
2025
- Human Labeling Bias Audit Analysis of Emotion AIBias Bounty Challenge, Data Track, Humane Intelligence with Valence AI and CoNA Lab at Virginia State University. Fifty-five audio clips labeled twice, fourteen mismatches, four bias patterns, and a framework for emotion AI that serves neurodivergent users.
- Figma, Spotify, Expedia… All Inside ChatGPT? ChatGPT is becoming the New Internet.With new features and platforms launching almost every week, it’s getting harder to keep up.
- Governance Audit of Three Facial-Recognition PlatformsAI Ethics Summer School, Pan-Africa Center for AI Ethics, August 2025. Clearview AI and Face++, AnyVision (Oosto), and Trueface scored against a 28-metric governance framework covering disclosure, bias auditing, consent, redress, and human oversight.
- Beyond Loneliness: What We Gain — and Risk — With AI CompanionsIn the last few months, I’ve been following lots of webinars and articles about AI companions — not assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, but syst…
- “Safety by Design: We Must Design AI Experiences that We can Trust.”Since I committed to diving deep into artificial intelligence, I’ve been struck by how many actors — governments, nonprofits, corporations, local commun…
- AI Can’t Never Walk like a Child.Let’s ride a time machine and go back to when you were learning how to walk. How did your parents teach you? Without them giving you precise muscle move…
- My first year at HCDE, UWThis past academic year of 2024-2025, I began a new chapter in the U.S., full of excitement and curiosity. As I wrap up my first year in the University…
- The Hidden Power of Everyday Tech: Why PMs Must Think About InfrastructureThe research paper about mobile payments becoming indispensable infrastructure in China reminded me of the dramatic Kakaotalk outage in South Korea a fe…
- ☕️ Invisible Menus and Broken Funnels: Applying Digital Product Thinking to a Physical CafeAfter a long, gloomy Seattle winter, the appearance of sunlight felt almost celebratory, signaling the long-awaited arrival of spring. Embracing the war…
- When and How I used Lostness metric in UXDid you know that there is a specific metric that calculates how much users are confused or lost while using the online service (web, app)?