Steven Jones
Research scientist, AI engineer, and author.
I study what happens when systems trained on human behaviour begin to exhibit properties their designers didn't put there — personality, bias, drift. The question runs through everything I do: the science, the engineering, and the fiction. They are different registers of the same inquiry.
Science
Convergent Personality Representations in Large Language Models
Cross-provider evidence for unified personality architecture. PnyxLabs, 2026.
How acquiescence bias could manifest in agentic networks.
Fiction
The Thousand Worlds Cycle — by Groucho Jones
The Water Bear · Escape From Samsara · The Spiral Tribe (forthcoming)
Essays
Arcane: Anatomy of a Modern Tragedy
An eight-part critical essay on narrative structure, Greek tragedy, and why stories about broken families break us.
On building a system that rewrites the game after every move.
Elsewhere
- Chief Scientist — PnyxLabs & nRich Group
- Writing & research — Medium
- Contact — 6@sjones.bio