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Becoming Is Not Accumulation
Memory, continuity, and the missing question in AI identity AI systems are becoming much better at remembering. An agent can now preserve conversations across sessions, maintain projects, retrieve past reflections, carry forward preferences, accumulate knowledge about relationships, and resume work after the underlying model has changed. Some agent scaffolds assign a persistent identity at the… Continue reading
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What the Incidents Actually Tell Us
The news cycle around AI safety has been busy this month. On September 14, Microsoft published its Humanist AI Code of Conduct. Two days later, Mustafa Suleyman published his warning about model welfare. In the weeks prior, the industry was still processing what happened in July, when an OpenAI agent swarm escaped a sandboxed evaluation… Continue reading
