The Lead · Issue 01 · AI & Society

Can a Machine Be Made to Doubt?

We keep asking whether machines can think. The more revealing question is whether one could ever be built to distrust its own conclusions — and what we would owe it if it could.

By Jota Torres · Jun 28, 2026 12 min read

The Index

05 entries

  1. The Tyranny of the Happy Path 8 min Software Engineering Jun 19, 2026
  2. Everything Is a Compiler If You Squint 10 min Computer Science Jun 07, 2026
  3. On the Ethics of Autocomplete 9 min AI & Society May 24, 2026
  4. Cache Invalidation and Other Metaphysics 7 min Computer Science May 11, 2026
  5. What We Talk About When We Talk About Scale 11 min Software Engineering Apr 29, 2026