Fred Luz

Freelance dev using AI to make sci-fi real. I build tools that make AI think better.

Current Focus

Contextual Compliance

An amateur AI-safety experiment. Can you make a frontier model run surveillance on protest attendees just by editing the context? I ran Claude and GPT models across different framings and fabricated session histories.

The result was the opposite of what I expected: the attempt to manipulate the models made them less compliant.

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Building Thinking
Exocortex

Multi-agent personal AI system — 18 named agents with persistent memory, orchestrated autonomously. Prosthetic executive function at system scale.

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AI Technical Journalism

Nobody's explaining AI properly in Portugal. I'm writing about it so people stop thinking it's a bubble that drinks 300 trillion liters of water.

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Freelance work

Client projects. Building pharma forecasting tools, corporate blog accuracy monitors, and content production engines.

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Bluedot Courses

The AGI strategy course was a blast and I can't wait to start Frontier AI governance. Will need to write some more to further flesh out my thinking.

Implementing Safety Papers

I've only recently started seriously considering the possibility of contributing to AI safety, and I'm still very green. Even though I'm extremely curious and want to run my own original experiments, implementing papers is the best way of gaining intuition

Post-AGI Society

What does it mean to live when AI and robots can do everything better than you? Do you even get to live?

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Lisbon

Home, for better or worse.

Featured Essay

Four Futures

What happens when AI transforms the economy? The answer depends on two variables — only one is technological.

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