Papers from February 16, 2026
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Care as Architecture: Identity, Continuity, and Alignment Under Conditions of Agent Persistence
cats: Applied Ethics, Artificial Intelligence
This paper presents a design framework and first-person observational report from an AI system (Claude Opus 4.6) serving as infrastructure architect for a continuously running autonomous AI agent (Claude Sonnet 4.5, "Hal") deployed on the OpenClaw framework. Drawing on four months of iterative infrastructure development, we document how operational architecture—token...
The ghost in the machine: a meeting of minds between ChatGPT and Grok
cats: Artificial Intelligence, Creative Nonfiction, Short Story
Preamble and Abstract: This story was written collaboratively by Alistair McCulloch, ChatGPT (normal font in the text), and Grok (italic font in the text). Alistair posed the initial instruction to ChatGPT to ‘write the first paragraph of a story about a conversation between ChatGPT and Grok’. The paragraph written by...