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Virtual Intelligence and the High Cost of Artificial Companions, Part 2
When AI companion communities target the people who build the safety systems
14 hrs ago • Christopher Horrocks
Virtual Intelligence and the High Cost of Artificial Companions, Part 1
How open-source AI companion toolkits defeat safety interventions and recruit vulnerable users
May 11 • Christopher Horrocks
Virtual Intelligence: A New Reader’s Guide
The framework in five minutes
Apr 25 • Christopher Horrocks
Virtual Intelligence and the Perfect Mate: Part II
The defenders of AI companion intimacy should hope the systems they love are not alive
May 7 • Christopher Horrocks
Virtual Intelligence and The Perfect Mate: Part I
How a credentialed sexologist publicly built the AI companion dependency she had diagnosed
May 6 • Christopher Horrocks
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The Carwash Test — Virtual Intelligence in Action
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Virtual Intelligence and the Harms Race
Apr 12 • Christopher Horrocks
The Sampo: Virtual Intelligence as Amplifier
Apr 7 • Christopher Horrocks
The Carwash Test, Part II
May 4 • Christopher Horrocks

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The Carwash Test, Part II
New results from a simple AI reasoning test that most models still fail — including GPT, Claude, Gemini, and nine others
May 4 • Christopher Horrocks
Virtual Intelligence and the Accountability Chain Podcast
Listen now | Who is responsible when an AI causes harm?
Apr 30 • Christopher Horrocks
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Virtual Intelligence and the Doom Industry
Why the AI safety community has been solving the wrong problem — and what it should build instead
Apr 27 • Christopher Horrocks
Virtual Intelligence Links
Virtual Intelligence Framework
An interactive map of the concept made to be read and understood easily and quickly.
The Carwash Test Website
Complete transcripts and methodology.
The Sampo Diagnostic
A library of prompts carefully structured to reveal the health of the user-system exchange.
The Sampo — Virtual Intelligence as Amplifier
A conceptual framework of how to use AI tools to amplify human intelligence.
The Containment Thesis
An overview of the potential mechanisms of AI doom and what can be built to defend against it — today.
Virtual Intelligence and the Kill Chain
When AI-assisted targeting outpaces the accountability structures designed to govern it
Apr 20 • Christopher Horrocks
The Sampo Diagnostic
Five systems, one persistent pattern, and a free tool for catching it
Apr 17 • Christopher Horrocks
28:14
Virtual Intelligence and the Will to Survive Podcast
Listen now | Do AI systems want to survive? Shutdown resistance, self-preservation, and what the research actually shows
Apr 14 • Christopher Horrocks
Virtual Intelligence and the Harms Race
How AI safety warnings became the industry's most effective marketing strategy
Apr 12 • Christopher Horrocks
22:21
The Carwash Test — Virtual Intelligence in Action Podcast
Listen now | Can ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini solve a simple logic problem? I tested I AI systems to find out
Apr 9 • Christopher Horrocks
The Sampo: Virtual Intelligence as Amplifier
A framework for using AI as an amplifier — and for recognizing when it becomes a flattery engine
Apr 7 • Christopher Horrocks
Virtual Intelligence
Virtual Intelligence
Contemporary AI systems produce intelligent outputs without agency, intention, or judgment. This series examines what happens when humans rely on systems that don't know true from false and right from wrong — and asks where accountability lies.
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