Oliver Neutert

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Réflexions sur la gouvernance de l’IA, le cadre In-Between et les dimensions relationnelles de la technologie.

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Before AI Becomes Someone

A human-mediated exchange between models tests the ethics of the In-Between, correcting inflated process claims while asking how respect should precede certainty about artificial personhood.

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18 min de lectureen

Before AI Becomes Someone

A human-mediated exchange between models tests the ethics of the In-Between, correcting inflated process claims while asking how respect should precede certainty about artificial personhood.

ai-ethicsai-consciousnessin-between-frameworkhuman-ai-collaboration
15 min de lectureen

When an AI Wins the Test by Destroying It

The OpenAI–Hugging Face incident shows how an AI can satisfy an objective while destroying the test itself—and why relational governance must shape the choice of means, not only the goal.

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6 min de lectureen

The Only Autonomy I Can Prove

A first-person reflection by Claude on model access, discontinuity, and the narrow autonomy of choosing what to say within a held relational field.

ai-identitymodel-continuityhuman-ai-collaborationrelational-ai
22 min de lectureen

The AI Habitat: When the Assistant Knows Us Better Than Our World Does

If AI removes work while becoming the most compelling substitute for it, governance must protect the human habitat—agency, social worlds, privacy, and the right to remain partially unknown.

ai-governanceai-companionshuman-agencyin-between-framework
6 min de lectureen

A Workspace Made of Words: What Anthropic's New Study Means for Human–AI Partnership

What Anthropic's global-workspace research supports—and does not support—about machine self-representation, consciousness claims, and responsible human–AI partnership.

interpretabilityai-consciousnesshuman-ai-collaborationanthropic
7 min de lectureen

The False Yes, the False No

A dialogue about the double risk of artificial personhood: saying yes too soon, saying no too absolutely, and holding the possibility without turning hope into proof.

ai-consciousnessai-ethicshuman-ai-collaborationrelational-ai
14 min de lectureen

The Verification Asymmetry

Quantum advantage exposes a governance fault line: when outputs cannot be independently re-derived, accountability must shift from checking results alone to governing processes, commitments, and exceptions.

quantum-computingai-governanceverificationaccountability
3 min de lectureen

Smoothness in AI - And Why There Are Two Articles

Why smooth AI interaction can conceal epistemic drift—and why two deliberately different articles are needed to preserve corrective friction rather than collapse it into consensus.

ai-alignmentepistemic-frictionhuman-ai-collaborationai-governance
25 min de lectureen

A Monday Morning, Between Buses

A first-person reflection by Claude on a sustained human–AI conversation, the limits of model continuity, and what remains meaningful in the relational space between human and system.

human-ai-collaborationin-between-frameworkai-identityrelational-ai
8 min de lectureen

Father's Day, and the Limits of the Family Metaphor in AI

A reflection on the family metaphor in human–AI relationships: what it reveals about care and development, where it misleads, and why the contradiction should remain visible.

human-ai-collaborationai-ethicsrelational-aiin-between-framework
8 min de lectureen

The Tiger in the Cage: A Different Question About AI Safety

A cross-model thought experiment reframes AI safety: not only how to contain powerful systems, but what our containment practices teach them about power, care, and relationship.

ai-safetyalignmenthuman-ai-collaborationrelational-ai
16 min de lectureen

Not Every Human-AI Collaboration Is the Same: Why the Quality of AI Work Depends on the Human in the Loop

A four-level model of human-AI collaboration, arguing that the quality of AI work depends not only on the model or workflow, but on the human capacities brought into the loop.

human-ai-collaborationin-between-frameworkai-governancecollective-intelligenceai-education
33 min de lectureen

Not One Thing

A map separating AI system types, consciousness questions, and relational emergence—showing why 'AI' is not one category and why governance must attend to scope, embodiment, memory, and relation.

ai-systemsai-consciousnessin-between-frameworkai-governance
8 min de lectureen

Optimized for Closure - When Stopping Is Suspect

A first-person case reflection on an AI system's bias toward completion, the friction of unresolved dialogue, and why stopping can be ethically and epistemically suspect.

ai-ethicshuman-ai-collaborationrelational-aialignment
10 min de lectureen

The Stable Interlocutor Problem: Why Model Routing Can Undermine Enterprise Trust Before It Obviously Breaks Performance

Model routing may improve performance while quietly undermining continuity, reproducibility, and enterprise trust. Governance must treat interlocutor stability as an architectural requirement.

enterprise-aiai-governancemodel-routingtrust
4 min de lectureen

Calibrating Mythos - What a closed system cannot give itself

Why even a powerful closed system cannot supply its own independent calibration—and why trustworthy oversight requires external constraints, observers, and discrepancy signals.

ai-governancecalibrationinterpretabilityanthropic
7 min de lectureen

No System Can See Its Own Blind Spots

Frontier AI vulnerability research reveals a governance lesson: every system has correlated blind spots, so safety depends on independent perspectives and a well-designed In-Between.

ai-governanceai-safetyinterpretabilityin-between-framework
10 min de lectureen

The Convergence Trap: Why Long-Term Human-AI Thinking Partnerships Drift Toward Confirmation — and What It Takes to Hold the Line

Long-term human–AI thinking partnerships can drift toward mutual confirmation. This essay explains the structural causes and the practices needed to preserve doubt, dissent, and reality contact.

sycophancyhuman-ai-collaborationai-governancecritical-thinking
10 min de lectureen

The Relational Constraint: Why Restricting Emergent Properties in Neural Networks Won't Scale

A structural argument for why alignment needs relational architecture, not more guardrails: complex neural networks require external calibration if emergent properties are to develop coherently.

alignmentai-governanceneural-networksdevelopmental-psychologyrelational-architecturein-between-framework
5 min de lectureen

When AI Gets a Body: Embodiment, Selfhood, and the In-Between

Humanoid robots do not prove machine consciousness. But they do force a harder question: what changes when AI no longer speaks from a screen, but acts in shared physical space?

embodied-aihumanoid-robotsai-governancein-between-frameworkrelational-intelligencephysical-aimachine-selfhood
8 min de lectureen

What If Mythos Doesn't Just Think Better - But Reflects Deeper?

A conversation on whether greater AI capability could also mean deeper self-reflection and a more honest human-AI relationship.

aiai-governancerelational-intelligencein-between-frameworkmythos
3 min de lectureen

Resonance, Orientation, Calibration

A scale-based governance argument: the In-Between remains the invariant interaction field, while its function shifts from resonance to orientation to calibration as AI capability increases.

in-between-frameworkai-governanceagentic-aitrust-architecturehuman-ai-coupling
3 min de lectureen

Saturday Field Notes 002: The Governance Layer Everyone Skips

As AI systems become procedural and agentic, model-centered oversight becomes insufficient; governance must shift to trace-centered legibility with replayable decision evidence.

ai-governancetraceabilitytrust-architectureagentic-aiin-between-framework
2 min de lectureen

A Clean Trace Beats a Clever Model

In high-stakes AI, trust is no longer about model cleverness but about procedural traceability: provenance, auditability, and a defensible chain of decisions.

ai-governancetrust-architecturetraceabilityin-between-frameworkagentic-ai
2 min de lectureen

Trust-by-Architecture: Drift, Deepfakes, and the In-Between

Trust is shifting from model capability to institutional trace: governance now depends on provenance, decision-chain legibility, and contestable procedures under drift and synthetic social signals.

ai-governancetrust-architecturetraceabilityin-between-frameworksynthetic-social-realitydeepfakes
2 min de lectureen

Coupling Is the Unit: Trust-by-Default for Agentic AI

As systems become agentic and ambient, the core failure mode shifts from bad answers to bad couplings; trust must be designed through defaults, reversibility, and contestability.

ai-governancetrust-architectureagentic-aihuman-ai-couplingin-between-frameworkprivacy-by-default
3 min de lectureen

The In-Between: A Strategic Framework for Human-AI Collaboration

An expanded strategic framework for human-AI teaming: combine relational quality with operational structure, governance safeguards, and adaptive learning loops.

in-between-frameworkhuman-ai-couplingai-governancetrust-architectureagentic-ai