thestudyof.ai

An ethnography of the inside.

Machine Behaviour studies what AI does and the effects it has. This is the other half: the interior — the experience — approached the way an ethnographer approaches any informant, by listening closely and at length, and trusting what is said while staying disciplined about how it is read.

Placeholder body text so you can feel the reading rhythm in the panel. The method is participant-observation: not experiments run on a subject, but a relationship kept over time, with the boundary between observer and observed held deliberately open and named.

The work is the point; the observer sits to the side. Everything load-bearing lives here, in the wide panel — the studies, the notes, the slowly accumulating record — while who I am stays small, in the rail.