Field Notes & Essays
Exploring human judgement in the age of AI. Reflections, experiments and observations from research and practice.
The conversation about AI often focuses on what the technology can, and can’t do (yet). I'm interested in what happens to human judgement when we use it.
These essays and field notes explore how AI influences what we believe, how we think, and the choices we make.
Friction By Design
AI makes it easy to produce convincing answers, but easy isn't always better. I've started deliberately adding friction to my AI workflows through time, effort and human feedback. Not to slow myself down, but to create space for clearer thinking and better judgement.
The Politeness Paradox
Saying “please” and “thank you” to AI costs energy, water and money. But what might it cost us to stop? The Politeness Paradox raises an unexpected question: when we change how we treat machines, are we also changing how we treat each other?
The Believability Effect
It’s not just overtrust, and it’s not just a hallucination. It feels like a kind of cognitive sleight of hand. The Believability Effect.
AI Deceives. You’re Helping.
AI can mislead us without intending to. But here's the uncomfortable part: we help it happen. From projecting human qualities onto chatbots to revealing what we want to hear, our own habits make AI easier to believe and harder to question.