Ken’s Substack

Perfect personas

How to build a truly JFK-like JFK-bot

Dec 9, 2025 • Kenneth Payne

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November 2025

Mind the map

Geo-spatial reasoning and psychological profiling in my strategy simulator

Nov 10, 2025 • Kenneth Payne

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October 2025

What are we doing here?

Thoughts on academia, slop and AI

Oct 22, 2025 • Kenneth Payne

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September 2025

Building an AI strategist

An update on the USM - my general purpose strategic simulator

Sep 29, 2025 • Kenneth Payne

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AI Arms and Influence

A little update as Project Schelling goes meta

Sep 3, 2025 • Kenneth Payne

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August 2025

Risky business

AI judges uncertainty like we do

Aug 5, 2025 • Kenneth Payne

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July 2025

Are Language Models strategic or parrots?

Feel my data

Jul 4, 2025 • Kenneth Payne

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May 2025

I'm building AI for personality and trait analysis

To see me is to know me

May 22, 2025 • Kenneth Payne

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(Artificial) minds, strategy and The Three Body Problem

Or, why the aliens are already among us

May 2, 2025 • Kenneth Payne

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April 2025

Simulating the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

A Project Schelling update

Apr 15, 2025 • Kenneth Payne

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Towards a Universal Schelling Machine

A Manifesto

Apr 1, 2025 • Kenneth Payne

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March 2025

Should Ukraine trust Russia, or Trump?

What my AI strategists can teach us about Ukraine’s peace negotiations

Mar 12, 2025 • Kenneth Payne

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