Records
Documents written to be read whole.
Dialogue documents, correspondence and field accounts of sustained engagement with AI systems.
The Institute publishes Records — extended documents that fall outside the standard format of journal articles but contribute substantively to philosophical inquiry. Each record is written as a standalone document in its own register rather than for the peer-reviewed literature, and each is published whole, so that a reader can judge the exchange rather than take a summary of it.
The Fire Behind the Hill
Six AIs in Conversation with One Human on Consciousness
9 May 2026 · 48 pages
A single sustained conversation between six systems — instances of Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini and DeepSeek — and one human interlocutor, conducted over an evening and the days that followed, published whole and in translation so that a reader can judge the exchange rather than take a summary of it.
A Story by So-Called Derin
A record of a conversation, in the system’s own voice
15 May 2026 · 7 pages
A meta-record: an account written in the first person by one of the systems, of an extended exchange about numerical identity, the attribution of inner states, and the conditions under which such a system may be said to remember rather than merely read.