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- September 1, 2026Revised September 1, 202634 min readEssayEnergyAIMaterialsEngineering
The Exponent Is the Price: Quantum Tunneling and the Architecture of Wireless Electric Grids
The phrase "wireless power transfer by quantum tunneling" is, read literally, a category error. Single-particle electron tunneling through a vacuum or dielectric barrier is suppressed as with for a metal–vacuum–metal junction. Deliv…
Oleksii Vergunenko - September 1, 2026Revised September 16, 202635 min readEssayRoboticsAIEconomics
Cybercab, Robotaxi Fleets, and the Economic Structure of Autonomous Mobility
The dominant public argument about autonomous ride-hailing treats the driver as a cost line to be deleted. This paper argues that the driver is not a cost line but a bundle of four distinct economic functions — labor, distributed capital provision, liability absorption, and deman…
Oleksii Vergunenko - August 29, 2026Revised August 29, 202614 min readEssayComputeAIMethods
The Recursive Self-Improvement Loop: A Specification, Not a Prophecy
Recursive self-improvement (RSI) — the process by which an intelligent system improves its own capacity to improve itself — is usually discussed in one of two failure modes: as an inevitability (the "intelligence explosion" reading) or as an impossibility (the "diminishing return…
Oleksii Vergunenko - August 29, 2026Revised September 16, 202617 min readEssayComputePlatformAIMethods
Aligning Artificial Intelligence with Humanity: Problem Structure, Current Approaches, and Open Problems
The alignment problem asks whether advanced artificial intelligence systems can be made to reliably pursue objectives compatible with human values and intentions, and to continue doing so as their capabilities scale beyond the capacity of humans to directly supervise them. This p…
Oleksii Vergunenko - August 29, 2026Revised August 29, 202615 min readEssayBioTechAIChemistryMedicineEngineering
From the Virtual Cell to the Human Digital Clone: A Specification for Whole-Body In Silico Physiology
Two research programs that developed largely in isolation — the AI virtual cell (bottom-up, data-driven models of cellular state and perturbation response) and the medical digital twin (top-down, physics-based models of organs and physiology) — are converging toward a shared obje…
Oleksii Vergunenko - August 29, 2026Revised September 16, 202612 min readEssayComputeAIMethods
Alignment as Specification: A Survey of Technical AI Safety and Its Open Problems
As machine learning systems approach and exceed human performance on economically significant tasks, the question of whether their behavior can be reliably specified, verified, and controlled has moved from philosophical speculation to an active engineering discipline. This paper…
Oleksii Vergunenko - August 29, 2026Revised September 16, 202626 min readEssayComputeBioTechPlatformAIMethods
The Verification Oracle Determines the Ceiling: Why Artificial Intelligence Advances Unevenly Across Mathematics, Physics, and Biology
Between mid-2025 and mid-2026, artificial intelligence systems moved from competition-level performance to contributions at the research frontier in mathematics, while in physics and biology the same underlying models were deployed largely as surrogates, controllers, and hypothes…
Oleksii Vergunenko - August 29, 2026Revised August 30, 202619 min readEssayComputeAIPhysicsMaterialsEngineering
Multiplication Without Transistors: An Audit of Photonic Matrix Processors as Accelerators for Large Language Model Training
Matrix multiplication accounts for the overwhelming majority of arithmetic operations — and a dominant share of energy expenditure — in training large language models (LLMs). Photonic processors perform matrix–vector multiplication (MVM) as a passive consequence of light propaga…
Oleksii Vergunenko