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Building at the intersection of neuroscience, AI, and technology.

Blog, portfolio, and general musings of Dr Gareth Roberts.

    • Emotional Large Lanuage...Models?
    AI Safety

    Emotional Large Lanuage...Models?

    Anthropic's new emotions paper does not show that Claude feels anything. It shows something more operationally important: affect-like internal states can tilt a model towards flattery, cheating and escalation — often before the transcript gives the game away.
    The Agent Wars Will Be Won on Memory, Not Models
    Agentic AI

    The Agent Wars Will Be Won on Memory, Not Models

    Long context is RAM. RAG is a filing cabinet. The frontier is memory: what an agent keeps, compresses, revises, forgets, and surfaces when action is on the line.
    Reasoning That Knows When to Shut Up
    AI Architecture

    Reasoning That Knows When to Shut Up

    Epistemic fidgeting, metacognitive failure in silicon, and why the Qualcomm paper on edge reasoning matters more than its benchmark tables suggest.
    The Smuggled Ideas
    AI Architecture

    The Smuggled Ideas

    Four papers that quietly crossed the AI–cognition border — and what got lost in transit.
    Vibe Coding in Regulated Production
    Vibe Coding

    Vibe Coding in Regulated Production

    Ship Like a Maniac, But Bring Receipts
    The Score Went Up. The Model Didn't.
    AI Evaluation

    The Score Went Up. The Model Didn't.

    LLM benchmarks are a best guess at genuine model capability
    The Context Wars
    Context Engineering

    The Context Wars

    The quiet discipline that will determine whether AI tells the truth.
    The Game Theory of AI Safety Talk
    AI Safety

    The Game Theory of AI Safety Talk

    Why what labs say about safety is a strategic signal, not a statement of values — and what that means for regulation.
    What Neuroscience Knows That AI Ignores
    Cognitive Neuroscience

    What Neuroscience Knows That AI Ignores

    Why the next leap in artificial intelligence will come from structure, not scale — and why a century of brain science has already drawn the blueprint.
    Continuous Thought Machines? Giving Neural Networks Time to Think
    AI Architecture

    Continuous Thought Machines? Giving Neural Networks Time to Think

    Time as the medium in which computation unfolds, measured and synchronised at the level of individual neurons.
    The AI Alignment Paradox: When Making AI Safe Hands Adversaries the Keys
    AI Safety

    The AI Alignment Paradox: When Making AI Safe Hands Adversaries the Keys

    In conventional security, hardening a system makes it harder to attack. You patch vulnerabilities, reduce attack surface, and defence moves in lockstep with robustness. AI alignment breaks this assumption.
    Text Becomes a Syscall: How OpenClaw and Moltbook Turned the Internet into an Operating System
    Agentic AI

    Text Becomes a Syscall: How OpenClaw and Moltbook Turned the Internet into an Operating System

    Late January 2026 will be remembered as the week a lobster meme accidentally taught the entire technology industry a serious idea.