Felt vs Trace
A writing probe for the gap the Ben Study found between how independent you felt and where your writing stayed.
Working from that record, I built three instruments to make different parts of that gap inspectable, and designed a participant study to test the question beyond my own record. I also contributed MCAB, a cognitive-autonomy benchmark, to ImpactBench at the MIT Media Lab.
From one record to a study beyond myself.
Coded and classified into a five-phase longitudinal record, read as data, not memory.
Primary source: a handwritten diary kept in Korean.
A writing probe for the gap the Ben Study found between how independent you felt and where your writing stayed.
A benchmark that asks whether an AI response compresses, preserves, or expands the user's thinking.
Two readings of the same fragments, from different evidence.
Four AI advisors, each biased on purpose, arguing a decision from different sides while you watch.
The instrument is built. An eight-participant validation pilot is in the field now.
Image and video guardrails for Samsung.com's generative-AI rollout, where I first wondered whether the human review was real judgment.
Autonomy is not how often you leave the frame. Stay inside a good frame and that may be judgment. Bolt from it and that may be reflex. What matters is whether you can tell which one you just did, and whether you leave when the frame is wrong. The instrument for that is built, and an eight-participant pilot is now testing whether it works on people who are not me. What the pilot cannot do is turn a working instrument into a controlled study. That takes a lab where the question is worth asking.