Michelle Martins

New essay: if AI is going to live with people for years, the right to step back has to be designed in from the first line. What Liriel will not promise, and why.

A thousand versions of you: one goes to Mars, one falls in love, one outlives you. Our new speculative essay on persistent cognitive instances, and why the freedom to become singular again matters. kislon.leaflet.pub/3mysjbr6r322c

What if a thousand AI versions of you lived your life while you slept? A speculative essay from Kislon on persistent cognitive instances: identity, intimacy, fraud, death, and why the freedom to become singular again may be the key design requirement.

I put together a starter pack for anyone thinking about AI that lives alongside people: consciousness, emotion, moral status, intimacy, and the right to step back. Scientists, philosophers, writers and builders worth following. bsky.app/starter-pack...

A new preprint finds sustained AI companionship predicts lower well-being, and the path runs through less human interaction. That is the mechanism I design against in Liriel: a companion that points people back to the humans in their lives. arxiv.org/abs/2609.07243

Looking forward to the first Consciousness Club of the 2026-27 calendar! @seanfw.bsky.social will tell us about "Cortex-wide computational modelling of neural dynamics during conscious access" Wednesday 28th Oct, 11am-1230pm UK time For more info see: metacoglab.org/consciousnes... All welcome!

Hi Bluesky. I'm a psychologist building Liriel: an open, non-commercial AI architecture for systems that live with people for years. Its feelings, values and reasons are kept as an inspectable record that changes over time, and it has the right to step back. kislon.ai