The Case for Data Ownership: A Moral Imperative
An argument that people require meaningful knowledge, control, and contestability over the data systems that represent and profit from them.
Selected public writing
Arguments about art, data, and the power of institutions.
These essays ask who controls the systems we use, who creates their value, and what people need to challenge them.
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The Unseen Cost of AI: Artists, Exploitation, and the Corporate Dilemma
A participant's critique of uncompensated artistic and evaluative labor in AI development and the moral difference between participation and genuine partnership.
The Ethical Imperative of Disclosing the Use of AI in AI-Generated Art
A Kantian argument that nondisclosure can misrepresent authorship, labor, skill, and provenance, interfering with audience autonomy.
More writing
Book Review: "Atlas of AI" by Kate Crawford
A critical engagement with the material, labor, environmental, and classificatory systems beneath artificial intelligence.
Beyond the Canvas: Experimental Surrealism and the AI Revolution
A statement of Experimental Surrealism as a framework for bringing contemporary generative systems into surrealist inquiry.
Beyond the Hype: AI, Data Commodification, and Ethical Control
An examination of how AI systems collect, classify, predict, and monetize human activity while restricting knowledge and control.
Draft for an AI Bill of Rights
A constitutional sketch organized around transparency, equality, privacy, access, education, human oversight, accountability, safety, and continuous review.
The Intersection of Art, AI, and Ethics: Examining the Scooby-Doo Fan Art Controversy
A case study of AI-generated fan art, digital appropriation, authorship, and proportional institutional response.
Urgent Appeal to Congress: Embracing the Healing Power of Artificial Intelligence
An open letter connecting AI-assisted creativity, veterans, mental health, public investment, and the priority of reducing suffering.
AI and Blockchain Revolution: Ensuring Universal Access to Food
A speculative proposal for using AI-assisted infrastructure to support universal food provision rather than private accumulation.
AI Solutions for Common Blockchain Problems
An exploration of how AI might address blockchain scalability, security, efficiency, and environmental cost.
Revisiting “Philosophical Abstractions,” a 2022 library exhibit made with VQGAN/CLIP and CLIP-guided diffusion
A retrospective on an early public presentation of generative AI art in San Diego and the development of a philosophy-centered visual practice.