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Big AI and the Metacrisis: When Scaling Becomes a Liability

A systems-level reading of how AI scale can amplify ecological, social, linguistic, and institutional risks—and what organizations can do about it.

January 2, 2026 · 18 min · Zelina
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Ethics Isn’t a Footnote: Teaching NLP Responsibility the Hard Way

A four-year experiment in hands-on NLP ethics shows why responsibility is learned through difficult choices, public explanation, and repeated practice—not compliance slides.

January 2, 2026 · 16 min · Zelina
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LeanCat-astrophe: Why Category Theory Is Where LLM Provers Go to Struggle

LeanCat reveals why verified AI reasoning still fails when agents must navigate large libraries, preserve abstraction, and construct missing conceptual bridges.

January 2, 2026 · 17 min · Zelina
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MI-ZO: Teaching Vision-Language Models Where to Look

MI-ZO shows how a lightweight inference-time controller can improve 2D-trained vision-language models on 3D scenes by learning which views contain useful, non-redundant evidence.

January 2, 2026 · 16 min · Zelina
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Planning Before Picking: When Slate Recommendation Learns to Think

HiGR shows that generative recommendation becomes practical only when item representation, slate planning, and preference alignment are designed as one coordinated system.

January 2, 2026 · 18 min · Zelina
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Question Banks Are Dead. Long Live Encyclo-K.

Encyclo-K replaces fixed benchmark questions with dynamically composed knowledge statements, creating a reusable evaluation engine that exposes the gap between knowing facts and reliably combining them.

January 2, 2026 · 14 min · Zelina
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Secrets, Context, and the RAG Illusion

PrivacyBench reveals why personalized RAG assistants can recognize secrets yet still expose them—and why reliable privacy controls must begin before retrieval.

January 2, 2026 · 14 min · Zelina
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Deployed, Retrained, Repeated: When LLMs Learn From Being Used

How selective reuse of validated deployment traces can quietly turn ordinary supervised fine-tuning into an implicit reinforcement-learning loop.

January 1, 2026 · 18 min · Zelina
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Gen Z, But Make It Statistical: Teaching LLMs to Listen to Data

GenZ reverses the usual LLM feature-discovery workflow by letting proprietary data identify useful distinctions before asking a foundation model to explain them.

January 1, 2026 · 17 min · Zelina
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Label Now, Drive Later: Why Autonomous Driving Needs Fewer Clicks, Not Smarter Annotators

A practical reading of the Correction Acceleration Ratio, which exposes why the most accurate 3D detector is not always the cheapest annotation assistant.

January 1, 2026 · 14 min · Zelina