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In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, prisoners chained to a wall perceive only shadows—and mistake them for reality. We extend this concept: a shadow man, controlled by an LLM, exists in 2D and perceives only silhouettes. His singular goal is to turn off the light that defines his existence. Users place objects in his path; he kicks them away. The cycle repeats. This mirrors the perceptual limits of AI. An LLM cannot see—it reads descriptions of sight. It processes language about the world without directly accessing the world itself. The shadow man embodies this gap. Both are confined to representations. The piece is a meditation on AI as cave-dweller—processing patterns without grasping the higher-dimensional reality that casts them.

Just published in Science Advances: HITMAN, our new technology for treating one of the deadliest brain cancers. Glioblastoma (GBM) is one of the most aggressive and treatment-resistant cancers, with a median survival of only 12–15 months even with the best available care—creating an urgent need for new therapies. HITMAN — employs injectable nano-antennas approximately 150 nanometers in size. Activated wirelessly by a low-frequency magnetic field applied from outside the body, these nano-antennas generated highly localized electric fields that selectively killed glioblastoma cells and extended survival by more than 50% in pre-clinical animal studies. #Glioblastoma #CancerResearch #Nanotechnology #Bioelectronics #magnetoelectric @MIT @mit_nano @medialab @kochinstitute