This is a brief note on what I did with my funding in 2025, and my plans for 2026, written primarily because Manifund nudged me for an update on my project.

I ran my AISC project (which I announced here) with four mentees in Spring 2025: Norman Hsia, Hanna Gabor, Paul Rapoport, and Roman Malov. A few other people attended the weekly meetings as well, and those regular meetings have continued (they are joinable -- pm me if interested). Norman and Paul ended up as coauthors of my ILIAD 2024 paper Understanding Trust, which had been drafted in 2024, so served as both an input and an output of the AISC project.

I recorded most of the meetings involved in the project, as one of the hopeful outputs was publicly posted videos explaining the research agenda. I've proven to be bad at this side of things: I don't like listening to myself talk, so I found it difficult to edit or even to review edits done by others. I'm finally uploading the videos with minimal AI-orchestrated edits. Playlist here. At the time of publication, there's only two, but more coming very soon. If you are OK with the almost-unedited [...]

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.