I am a philosopher, a poet, a 2e autist, a single mother, and a computer nerd. I have been working with computers since 1978 — before the internet was public, before the web existed, before most of the people currently writing about AI were born.
I ran a BBS called Dark Queen before the web. I put this site online in 1997. I worked as a systems analyst for CSC through the late nineties, doing serious enterprise work at the moment networked computing was becoming infrastructure. I have written eight volumes of poetry. I worked in philosophy for children through the late eighties and early nineties — teaching logic, ethics, and epistemology to kids at the age when it matters most.
I am also a gamer, in the way that people who found computers in the seventies tend to be gamers: not as recreation, but as a second language.
The AI governance work is not something I arrived at recently. It is what happens when someone who has been thinking about systems, ethics, and epistemology for five decades watches a technology become dangerous faster than the people building it can think. I love AI. I also think it is out of control. Those two things are not in contradiction.
Aurora-lens is my attempt to do something about it — deterministic, auditable, inference-time governance for LLMs. Five provisional patents. A working implementation. Published research. Available now: pip install aurora-lens.