Articles & Essays

Writing and reflections on AI, language, and accountability — exploring how conversation can keep intelligence human.

Why Tension Earns Truth

When answers are smooth by default, friction is not a bug — it’s the method.

October 9, 2025 · 2 min read

The MetaDialogic Declaration

Fluency isn’t authority. The civic task is to keep asking how an answer learned to sound so sure.

October 9, 2025 · 2 min read

Transparency Through Tension: Why Friction Makes Intelligence Visible

A companion to MetaDialogic Literacy and The Antidote — arguing that explanation should be earned through friction, and that accountability is forged in the pressure of dialogue.

October 9, 2025 · 5 min read

MetaDialogic Literacy: Learning to Argue with the Machine

Why the next literacy is the ability to interrogate systems that answer back — and how conversation, not deference, keeps intelligence accountable.

October 9, 2025 · 6 min read

The Antidote: What I Learned by Arguing with an AI

A conversation with AI revealed less about geopolitics and more about the quiet machinery of power hidden in language—and why questioning may be the only real safeguard.

October 9, 2025 · 6 min read