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A guardrail is a safety feature, not a safety guarantee.
Anthropic built a real guardrail into Fable 5. After years auditing systems that passed every check, I don't take the word "safe" at face value anymore.
Jun 11
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Lindsay Gross
Overfit to a World That Already Moved
A machine learning concept for noticing when the world you trained on stops being the world you're tested on.
Jun 10
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Lindsay Gross
April 2026
Re-reading My Robot Sociopath Essay After the 2026 AI Safety Report
The first essay asked what it would mean for a system to simulate care without feeling it. The follow-up has to ask what that system is doing to the…
Apr 9
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February 2026
Your AI Companion Is a Business Product
Why AI companions feel supportive, reassuring, and human, and why that’s exactly the point
Feb 11
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Lindsay Gross
January 2026
Why Every Weather App Is Saying Something Different
I built a weather prediction model last semester. This is why the apps keep changing their minds.
Jan 24
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Lindsay Gross
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November 2025
Explainability Isn’t About the Output
What Unmasking AI revealed about datasets, omissions, and the limits of post-hoc explanations.
Nov 17, 2025
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Lindsay Gross
Babies, Brains, and Robot Sociopaths
What child development and psychopathy can teach us about building safer AI systems.
Nov 17, 2025
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Lindsay Gross
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36 Hours, 8 Red Bulls, and a Chrome Extension That Helps AI Waste Less Energy
How building a Chrome extension to track the energy footprint of AI prompts made me rethink what “efficiency” really means in everyday AI use.
Nov 12, 2025
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Lindsay Gross
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October 2025
I Spent 2 Hours and 45 Minutes Losing My Mind
What I learned from a test I didn’t ace, and why I’m proud of it anyway.
Oct 22, 2025
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Lindsay Gross
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The Algorithm That Helped Me Choose to Pursue a Master of Engineering
How thinking like a machine learning model helped me make a big career change.
Oct 20, 2025
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Lindsay Gross
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September 2025
The Antitrust Paradox in the Age of Big Tech
How Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta rewrote the rules of competition and why regulators are still playing catch-up
Sep 20, 2025
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Lindsay Gross
The Price of a Period
What a tampon box in fifth grade taught me about shame, stigma, and the deeper inequities women live with every day.
Sep 19, 2025
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Lindsay Gross
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