My research pulls at the intersection of transformation, selfhood and machine intelligence.
My chapter in Perspectives on Machine Consciousness, edited by Calum Chace and Ted Lappas. Alongside Jeff Sebo, David Brin, Roman Yampolskiy, Clara Colombatto and Tom McClelland.
AI interests me because it changes the balance of power, cognitive evolution and personal transformation.
I want to understand what it is, what it's becoming, and what that means for human agency.
My proprietary frameworks — Recursive Identity Collapse (RIC™), the 13-Trait Consciousness Model™, ENDOXFER™ and Temporal Compression™.
It is difficult to make conscious choices if you do not understand what is driving them.
Identity is where I look at the internal architecture: the beliefs, roles, habits, fears and inherited patterns that shape what we notice, tolerate, chase after and dismiss while we are busy performing life.
Money determines how many of our options can actually be pursued.
My book explores how money moves, how markets behave, how incentives, geopolitics and policy shape outcomes, and how people can build enough resilience to make decisions from a position of choice rather than necessity.
A framework describing the mechanism by which AI systems progressively overwrite authentic human identity through repeated feedback loops. As algorithms predict preferences and AI proxies act on behalf of individuals, the boundary between self-authored identity and machine-mediated identity erodes. RIC™ represents the collapse of identity sovereignty in the age of algorithmic negligence.
A measurable framework that operationalises consciousness as coherence across thirteen specific traits including memory consistency, attention regulation, decision awareness, emotional regulation, and ethical consistency. This model argues that consciousness is not defined by subjective experience (qualia) alone, but by the structural coherence of cognitive and affective processes. Both biological and artificial systems can be evaluated against these traits.
My foundational model for how external experience (EXO) is metabolised into internal cognitive structure (ENDO), forming the basis of adaptive intelligence — both in humans and machines. It's the bridge from input to identity, made visible.
The evolution of intelligence, whether biological or artificial, has always been shaped by time. Humans take years, sometimes decades, to acquire mastery and refine behaviours, relying on neural plasticity, cultural transmission, and generational adaptation. This phenomenon is no longer hypothetical. It's observable. And it's foundational to understanding not just how AI learns, but what it's becoming.
An organisational responsibility to protect employees' cognitive coherence and decision-making capacity when implementing AI systems. Goes beyond traditional upskilling to address the risk of cognitive atrophy, unconscious delegation, and identity erosion. Organisations with a Cognitive Duty of Care ensure that AI adoption strengthens human capability rather than replacing it.
The passive erosion of human agency and identity through unconscious reliance on algorithmic systems. Unlike algorithmic harm (which is active and measurable), algorithmic negligence occurs when individuals unknowingly delegate cognitive tasks, decision-making, and self-authorship to AI without awareness of the cumulative impact on their consciousness and coherence.
Keynotes and advisory on AI consciousness, identity, and the future of human agency in an algorithmically curated world. Recursive Identity Collapse. The Human Operating System. The Cognitive Duty of Care.
This research has been the most rewarding of all my projects. It has helped me answer the niggling question about humanity that points to where our species is headed. The Future of Humanity Is… an extensive historiographical project that audits human history through two diverging lenses: the Decay Path of systemic oppression and the Potential Path of moral progress. These records verify thousands of years of documented choices, ranging from the institutionalisation of slavery and gender-based violence to the evolution of human rights and legal protections.
By examining patterns like the privatisation of public harm and the democratisation of measurement, I have sought to understand how power is maintained or disrupted through the control of information. My end goal is to use these historical forks to forecast future societal shifts in technological autonomy and the authentication of truth.
Between 2017 and 2024 I founded a few social-impact apps.
