arvoinen.ai

Arshavir Blackwell, PhD

I research what’s actually happening inside large language models — and build tools that put it to work.

Where to find me
The newsletter

Inside the Black Box

Long-form pieces on interpretability research — what a finding actually shows, what it doesn’t, and where the measurement goes wrong. Experiments run on my own hardware. No hype, no speculation.

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The product

YourVoiceCraft

An AI that writes in your voice — and actually knows what you’ve written. A private model trained on your own work, so nothing you haven’t published ever leaves your hands.

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The background

Arshavir Blackwell

Publications, patents, and CV. Two decades of building AI systems — from Ask Jeeves to enterprise machine learning — and a PhD in cognitive science from UC San Diego.

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The podcasts

Conversations

My own show is the audio companion to the newsletter — shorter takes on the research, and the stories behind it. Everything below that is somebody else’s show, where I turned up as a guest.

Inside the Black Box — the podcast
The audio companion to the newsletter, on Jellypod.
Guest appearances