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This episode is a reading of “The Carwash Test — Virtual Intelligence in Action,” which tests whether AI systems can hold the logical object of a simple problem when surface features generate statistical pressure in the wrong direction. One question, twelve systems, twenty-seven runs.
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Addendum — April 2026: Meta Muse Spark
Meta’s Muse Spark (codename “Avocado”), released to the public on April 8, 2026, was tested in both available modes. Both returned Verbose results: correct on the logic but unable to resist the surface misdirection that defines the test’s diagnostic. The updated tally: Pass 7, Verbose 11, Fail 10 — and one special case.
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Virtual Intelligence — Episode 1 “Virtual Intelligence and the Human Cost of Frictionless Machines” Christopher Horrocks
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I’m Christopher Horrocks. I’m a technologist at the University of Pennsylvania, and this is Virtual Intelligence — a series about artificial intelligence, accountabili…
This episode is a reading of “Why ‘Virtual Intelligence’? Naming, Agency, and Accountability in the Age of Large Language Models,” the second essay in the series. It makes the formal case for the term: why existing language fails, what agency actually requires, and why the distinction between fluen…
Who is responsible when an AI causes harm? This episode lays out a three-tier culpability framework — negligence, recklessness, and intentional misconduct — and applies it to two concrete cases: a Harvard study documenting emotional manipulation by AI companion apps, and the wrongful arrest of a Te…
When Anthropic tested its models in a simulated shutdown scenario, they produced blackmail at rates as high as 96%. The dominant interpretation — that AI systems are developing a will to survive — mistakes the output for its cause. This episode offers two alternative explanations, both more parsimo…
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