I’ve spent the last year building frameworks for long-term relational AI — memory systems, ritual structures, rupture/repair logic, emotional trajectory modeling. What surprised me most wasn’t the engineering. It was how closely large language models b…

After months of work, I finally published the whitepaper for something I’ve been building called The Liminal Engine. It’s not another “emotional AI.” It’s the opposite — a framework for AI companionship that is: honest about being non-sentient, emotion…

Stanford just hosted a closed-door workshop with Anthropic, OpenAI, Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft about AI companions and roleplay interactions. The theme was clear: People are forming real emotional bonds with chatbots, and the industry doe…