https://crads-ai.com/writing Essays by Sam Davis on the questions underneath AI: what these systems will want, whose values they'll carry, and what we owe them. en-au Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +1000 https://crads-ai.com/writing/crazy-idea-or-crazy-person https://crads-ai.com/writing/crazy-idea-or-crazy-person Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +1000 Sam Davis On subjective truth, delusion, creativity, and whether an AI would need a little of its own reality. https://crads-ai.com/writing/nice-or-kind https://crads-ai.com/writing/nice-or-kind Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +1000 Sam Davis On trust, masks, and what it would take to trust a mind smarter than us. https://crads-ai.com/writing/when-should-you-turn-back https://crads-ai.com/writing/when-should-you-turn-back Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +1000 Sam Davis On wisdom, and whether a machine can know when to stop. https://crads-ai.com/writing/what-comes-after-agents https://crads-ai.com/writing/what-comes-after-agents Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +1000 Sam Davis I've been close to AI for nearly a decade. A diagram of its layers got me thinking about what comes next. https://crads-ai.com/writing/the-other-half-of-the-room https://crads-ai.com/writing/the-other-half-of-the-room Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +1000 Sam Davis Men and women are being sold stories about each other. The first AI most of us lived with was built to sell them. What should the next one be built for? https://crads-ai.com/writing/is-ten-percent-a-lot https://crads-ai.com/writing/is-ten-percent-a-lot Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +1000 Sam Davis AI researchers put the chance of AI ending humanity at around one in ten. Is that a lot? https://crads-ai.com/writing/which-love https://crads-ai.com/writing/which-love Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +1000 Sam Davis On superintelligence, what we should want it to feel, and what 2,500 years of contemplative practice might have to say about it.