Justas Petronis

Why AI Is a Different Kind of Tool: (1) The Judgment Gap

AI gives you the conclusion, pre-formatted as authoritative, rather just giving you the data to decide for yourself

May 31 • Justas Petronis

Apparently, I was writing a scaffold for my PhD thesis in 2015

The argument I am defending now is architecturally the same argument I made in my BA 10 years ago. I just had the wrong materials, the wrong vocabulary…

May 12 • Justas Petronis

Why AI is different from every other tool

The comparison to past technologies is meant to reassure. Here's exactly why it doesn't.

May 4 • Justas Petronis

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April 2026

Living inside the argument

Research changed what I notice. It didn't change what I do.

Apr 14 • Justas Petronis

March 2026

The question underneath the question

There is a question underneath most AI ethics conversations that the conversation itself never quite reaches.

Mar 31 • Justas Petronis

I was asking the wrong question

I spent a year writing about AI. Then I spent a year doing research. Here’s the difference.

Mar 3 • Justas Petronis

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March 2025

From logic gates to neural states

My presentation at HUMM PhD Student Conference at Tallinn University. Keeping it succinct as I hope to get this published as a paper

Mar 31, 2025 • Justas Petronis

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February 2025

The Burden of Infinite Memory

An attempt at an introduction for my PhD thesis while preparing a conference presentation in Tallinn this March (2025)

Feb 3, 2025 • Justas Petronis

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December 2024

System Error

Written before the research sharpened my view. The post that explains what changed: "I was asking the wrong question" (March 2026).

Dec 2, 2024 • Justas Petronis

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November 2024

Thirteen Questions I Couldn't Answer

A few questions I was pondering this week (all the while being a bit under the weather and not doing enough of reading worth writing about).

Nov 11, 2024 • Justas Petronis

Can AI Be Virtuous?

Written before the research sharpened my view. The post that explains what changed: "I was asking the wrong question" (March 2026).

Nov 3, 2024 • Justas Petronis

October 2024

The Vulnerability Gap

Shannon Vallor and Tillmann Vierkant offer a legitimately good argument that existing discourse on AI ethics has focused too much on issues of…

Oct 21, 2024 • Justas Petronis