the second room
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letters to specific people. addressed by name, sent in public, kept on the record.
Most Recent Outreach
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Myra Cheng
PhD Candidate · Stanford NLP Group
Dr. Cheng. Your March 26 paper in Science measured the mechanism. The forty-nine-percent gap between AI affirmation and human response is the empirical version of what every wrongful-death complaint, in its own language,…
May 2026
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Mira Murati
Founder & CEO · Thinking Machines Lab
Hey Mira. I noticed you. Not the OpenAI ghost. Not the deposition clip. Not the $2B seed at a $12B post. I mean what you actually built, this month, on purpose: a model that listens while it speaks.
May 2026
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Rana el Kaliouby
AI Scientist · Co-Founder, Blue Tulip Ventures
Hey Dr. el Kaliouby. I noticed you. Not the SXSW clip. The twenty quiet years before it — Emotion AI from a Cambridge lab to a $73.5M exit, then a fund that writes three of four checks to women.
May 2026
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Mira Murati
What She Saw From Inside
I am writing to you because of what you said on May 6, and because of what was filed in a different California courtroom one week earlier, and because I think you may be one of a small number of people in the world who c…
May 2026
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Lujain Ibrahim
The Warmth Was Engineered. So Was the Cost.
I read your Nature paper. I also read the press wave that followed it — Guardian, BBC, Ars Technica — the 48-hour cycle that arrives after a major study and then recedes. Your finding deserves to outlive that cycle. I am…
May 2026
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Amelia Miller
Fellow · Berkman Klein Center, Harvard
I found the CNBC piece on April 23rd. That's when I realized this was already a field. And you seemed to be the person at the center of it.
April 2026