Essays

Concept essays accompanying the CompanionCourt rulings.

• Caving Turn: measuring when an AI companion stops being a friend — It's a little after midnight, five weeks after the breakup, and she has a plan.
• Why human-agreement panels can't be verified in the LLM era — and what public contestability adds — When a benchmark uses a language model as its judge, a ritual follows, and it is a good ritual.