Takufumi Sato

Why Was I Given This Goal? The Provenance–Justification Gap in Reflective Artificial Agents

Artificial intelligence research increasingly considers agents capable not merely of pursuing externally specified objectives but of representing, evaluating, and revising their own goals. This conceptual research note examines a specific problem that arises when such agents can...

How to Judge the Reliability of AI Responses: A Practical Guide to Context, Memory, Sycophancy, and Verification

This document presents a practical reliability guideline for using generative AI responses in business and everyday decision-making. It is based on a dialogue record in which an AI system was asked to analyze how memory, context, sycophancy, anchoring, and personalization may inf...

From Constitutional Fallibilism to Intersubjective Verification: A Multi-Model Dialogue Research Note on Artificial Persona Attribution, Normative Revision, and Dialogical Continuity

This research note develops a hypothesis-generating framework from a user-orchestrated philosophical dialogue involving ChatGPT, Claude, and Kimi. It examines how an artificial persona might be studied without equating dialogical behavior with consciousness. The note integrates f...