Founder of Surmado. AI-ethics researcher focused on answerability. Musician as Scoobert Doobert and of FEiN.
My public repos are working projects and teaching artifacts:
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answer-engine — an LLM-backed answer engine that cites its sources or declines plainly. Apache 2.0. DOI
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lukefwalton.com-archive — a durable, dependency-free source archive of my writing, papers, and music catalog. DOI
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workout-logger — Private Workout Logger, an on-device iOS workout tracker with no account, no cloud, and no subscription. Source published for audit. App Store
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stop-political-texts - I hate spam texts! My attempt to fight back against the noise. MIT - steal it, use it, make it better. App Store
Answerability Quartet: four papers on who answers when an AI acts.
- “The Decision No One Authored: The Answerability Gap in Generative AI” — preprint: DOI
- “The Captured Oracle: Authorship and Agency in the Ethics of Answer-Engine Optimization” — preprint: DOI
- “The Invariant of Answerability” — working paper: DOI
- “Building Answerable AI” — working paper: DOI
Papers · Writing · Music · Rendered archive · PhilPeople · ORCID
Profile photo taken at the end of the Golden Trail, after summiting Mount Kurodake in Daisetsuzan National Park.



