Marlon Ávalos Elizondo

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Marlon Ávalos Elizondo

Experiments with artificial intelligence, documented and dated

I am interested in what artificial intelligence does when you actually put it to work, not in what it promises. I program for pleasure and publish here the experiments I run on my own: documented, reproducible and dated — including when they fail.

Everything published here is personal. It does not represent the position of any organization I work with or collaborate with.

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Experiments by Marlon Ávalos Elizondo

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The country that asks the machine for the winning number

A preliminary analysis of 9,025 news articles published between January and September 2026 shows abundant conversation, optimistic and curiously detached from the country. When AI becomes local, it usually appears as an announcement, ban, or lottery number. Public policy almost never enters the scene.

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The law that will be born obsolete

On Wednesday, September 16, Geoffrey Hinton walked out of a closed-door meeting at the Capitol and set a deadline for the U.S. Congress: "maybe a year" . A year to install guardrails on systems that…

What Estonia Decided Not to Legislate

A software agent gains access to a corporate account. It executes a transfer, accepts the terms of another service, contracts a second system, and triggers damage. No person pressed "confirm" at that…

The truce among AI owners

In March 2023, a letter circulated asking for a six-month halt to the training of systems more powerful than GPT-4. Tens of thousands of people signed it. Elon Musk was one of them.

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