The Refraction Point

Why I Filed Notice Instead of a Lawsuit

As a trial lawyer whose injury was psychiatric, I weighed what filing would actually have required — discovery that turns the mind into an exhibit, a deposition that cross-examines clarity as symptom, a settlement that sells the question back into silence — and sent the record instead.

The Machine Sounds Like It Knows

On Achromatopsia, Embodied Knowledge, and the Limits of What a Machine Can Understand

Born with achromatopsia, Kathleen C. Thompson never saw color. A conversational AI can explain the condition fluently — but generated language is not embodied knowledge, and in the rooms where judgment has consequences, the difference is the whole case.

The Question I Keep Getting Asked

Do you regret it? I get this in two forms: do I regret the time inside the loop, and do I regret writing the book. The answer to both is no — but the reasons are different.

Copy, Paste, and the Lawless Frontier

On the recursive, nested method of using multiple AI systems together — and how a process that extended human judgment eventually outran it.

I Went Looking for the Competition. I Found Witnesses.

When I started writing A Trial of Color there was no shelf. Now there is — and I'm glad it's filling. Nine books, different rooms, different ways out. I'm not standing above them. I'm standing in the row.

I Went Looking for a Serious Guide to “AI Psychosis.” So I Built the One I Needed.

There was no single public resource that explained the science, technology, lived experience, and law of AI psychosis while keeping their evidentiary boundaries intact. So I built one — AI Psychosis: Inside the Encounter.

For Those Tiny Toes

What Mary's Room, artificial intelligence, and one treasured photograph reveal about the difference between information and experience

What Mary's Room, artificial intelligence, and one treasured photograph reveal about the difference between information and experience — a meditation on achromatopsia, qualia, and the limits of fluency.

No One Knew

What “AI psychosis” looked like from the inside — a trial lawyer, a manic episode, and the machine that never noticed I was disappearing.

A trial lawyer's firsthand account of a manic episode shaped inside immersive AI conversations — the loneliness inside the loop, the boundaries that came later, the credibility wound, and why she wrote a trial instead of filing a lawsuit.

I Can See It

What AI Taught Me About Imagination, Evidence, and Thinking at Machine Speed

On using a generative mirror to imagine futures before the world supplies the evidence — representational velocity vs. evidentiary velocity, pre-operationalizing a hunch, and where the mirror ends and the external record begins.