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Mind the Gap: Interpolants, Ontologies, and the Quiet Engineering of AI Reasoning

Deletion sounds simple until the system still knows the thing you deleted. A company removes a sensitive supplier label from its knowledge graph. A hospital publishes a subset of a medical ontology without exposing internal diagnostic codes. A compliance team rewrites a rule base so external partners can query it without seeing the original vocabulary. Everyone nods. The data is “sanitized.” The schema is “simplified.” The private terms are gone. ...

December 10, 2025 · 19 min · Zelina
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Breaking Rules, Not Systems: How Penalties Make Autonomous Agents Behave

Emergency is a terrible product requirement. It sounds simple in a meeting: “The agent should follow policy, except when the situation is urgent.” Wonderful. Very human. Also almost useless. A delivery robot should not enter a restricted zone. Unless the package is critical medicine. A warehouse agent should not skip safety checks. Unless a fire alarm requires rerouting. A self-driving system should obey traffic norms. Unless an emergency trip makes delay costly. But “unless urgent” does not tell the agent which rule can bend, which rule must hold, and which shortcut turns the system from flexible into reckless. ...

December 4, 2025 · 15 min · Zelina