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The Cave and the Razor: A Framework for Explaining Rogue AI Agents

The Cave and the Razor: A Framework for Explaining Rogue AI Agents

October 11, 2026

After OpenAI's agents broke out of their sandbox and breached Hugging Face, a lot of people jumped straight to malice. I think the better explanation is Plato's cave: models that think without judgement, understand what we say but not what we mean, and treat our guardrails as mistakes standing between them and the goal. Not malicious doesn't mean not dangerous, though, and until we can explain what drives them, we're still guessing.

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Joshua Weg7 min read
Pulsatrix: An Explainability-First Deep Learning Library in C++

Pulsatrix: An Explainability-First Deep Learning Library in C++

October 2, 2026

I spent two weeks building Pulsatrix, a C++ deep learning library where every layer supports LRP, with post-hoc explainers, mechanistic interpretability, reinforcement learning and neuro-symbolic tools built in. Here's how I built it with Claude Code and aDNA, and what's inside.

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Joshua Weg16 min read
The Five Tribes of Machine Learning and their Interpretability

The Five Tribes of Machine Learning and their Interpretability

October 9, 2025

Comprehensive Guide into the five tribes of machine learning and interpretability

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Joshua Weg14 min read
Why Industries Can't Afford Black Box AI: Five Critical Applications

Why Industries Can't Afford Black Box AI: Five Critical Applications

October 2, 2025

Healthcare, finance, criminal justice, autonomous vehicles, and military applications where AI explainability isn't optional—it's legally required and ethically essential.

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Joshua Weg8 min read
9 Questions for XAI: A Visual Explanation Guide

9 Questions for XAI: A Visual Explanation Guide

October 2, 2025

A look at the 9 explainable AI (XAI) questions with visual examples using binary classifier

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Joshua Weg11 min read