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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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Jeff Guenther, LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor · “Therapy Jeff” · ~4.5M followers
Jeff. You listed five ways to spot “AI psychosis”: telling it what you've told no one, grieving when it changed, trusting it over the people in your life, leaning on it through trauma, feeling it gets you. Not one of tho…
June 16, 2026
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Cindy H. Liu
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School · Brigham and Women's Hospital
Dr. Liu. Your study measured who reaches for AI in mental distress — and one line located it: lifetime therapy predicted it, current therapy did not. The students turning to the machine are disproportionately the ones wh…
June 13, 2026
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Bernd Stahl
Professor of Critical Research in Technology · University of Nottingham
Professor Stahl. Your June 8 essay split the responsibility for AI four ways — government, the companies, researchers, civil society — and named the true thing at its center: everybody assumes it's someone else's problem…
June 9, 2026
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aqua5230 (Loll)
Indie developer · maker of usage
You wrote that the keyboard is your first sword. I mounted that sword on one machine and finally saw how much I'd been swinging it — close to five hundred dollars of usage in a week, on a flat hundred-a-month plan. A pan…
June 2, 2026
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Michael Lawrence
Software Engineer · 25 years · Level Up Coding contributor
Michael. You are right about the null check. You are right that the reflex you spent twenty-five years building is the reflex AI quietly relieves you of. I am writing because I read the same picture from the opposite cor…
May 2026
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Polina Vulf
Community Engagement & Content Strategy · AI-Powered Women
Polina. Design, storytelling, human connection — that is your job description and it is the entire job description of this publication too. The letter is mostly compliment. There is no pitch. I am sending it to the desk…
May 2026
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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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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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Julie Jargon
The Missing Actor
I read your May 23 piece on Joe Alary. The reporting is careful, the photography by Laura Proctor is intimate, and the central trajectory — unrequited love, the AI, the delusions of grandeur, the cost — is rendered with…
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