Kaizen Craft

Learning out loud.

Working notes on AI systems, safety research, labor, ethics, and governance policy.

Week 1 Literature Review: Red-Teaming, Quantization, and Multilingual Robustness

Phase 1 - Research Niche Selection & Literature Foundation.

Week 1 Literature Review blooming

Jul 2026

When Search Goes Wrong

ICML 2026 — CREST-Search red-teams web-augmented LLMs by manipulating search queries to induce unsafe citations, not unsafe generation.

ICML Adversarial growing

Jul 2026

Gray-Box VLM Adversarial Alignment

ICML 2026 — SVD-structured adversarial attacks against gray-box vision-language models.

ICML Alignment growing

Jul 2026

LLM Safety Evaluations Lack Robustness

ICML 2026 Position paper — the current LLM safety-evaluation pipeline lacks robustness across dataset curation, red-teaming, generation, and judging.

ICML Alignment growing

Jul 2026

Chain-of-Thought as a Lens

ACL 2026 — a semantic-entropy-based ‘Alignment Score’ for measuring how well multi-step LLM reasoning tracks human-preferred reasoning, and where it breaks down.

ACL Alignment growing

Jul 2026

Bridging the Scale Gap

FAccT 2026 — hybrid human+automated red-teaming to surface latent risks in text-to-image models that neither approach catches alone.

FAccT Red Teaming growing

Jun 2026

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Sketches

Experiments at different development stages

CivicSpark AI

Building an AI interface for Tulsa City Government.

civic tech open data seeding

Jul 23

Lessons from Community Organizing

Passion Project – a presentation

Migrant labor Community organizing growing

Jul 23

Migrant Sex Workers Detained by ICE

Article published in TruthOut, featured by DemocracyNow.

sex work is work migrant labor growing

Jul 22

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Map

Navigation across relational landscapes

MexiCable

Cablecar for the people.

Urban Design Latin America

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Garden

Creative tinkering I do in my free time

Nativist Birdfeeder

Our Berlin public art project: a birdfeeder that only opens its gates to European birds

machine learning public art interactive sculpture diy circuits Berlin migrant justice immersive art urban space

Blooming 🌸

Denver's Chinatown: An Erasure

Our augmented reality street theater piece for the Denver Fringe Festival

forensic architecture augmented reality immersive art street theater Fringe Festival public art Denver Chinatowns migrant justice sex work is work

Growing 🌿

City Handprints

Migrant Worker Justice: honoring the life of 宋扬 Song Yang

public art migrant justice sex work is work NYC Chinatowns

Blooming 🌸

Electric Circus

Sex Robots in the Singularity: A DIY circus/fabric art project

circus art diy circuits wearable tech fabric art Toronto Montreal Fringe Festival Beijing

Blooming 🌸

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Library

Book Reviews

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Kaizen Craft

Learning out loud.

Week 1 Literature Review: Red-Teaming, Quantization, and Multilingual Robustness

When Search Goes Wrong

Gray-Box VLM Adversarial Alignment

LLM Safety Evaluations Lack Robustness

Chain-of-Thought as a Lens

Bridging the Scale Gap

CivicSpark AI

Lessons from Community Organizing

Migrant Sex Workers Detained by ICE

MexiCable

Nativist Birdfeeder

Denver's Chinatown: An Erasure

City Handprints

Electric Circus

AI Needs You

Human Compatible

Rewiring Democracy