I build answerable AI systems and durable archives for authored work.
Founder of Surmado. AI-ethics researcher. Musician as Scoobert Doobert and of FEiN.
- answer-engine — an LLM-backed answer engine that cites its sources or declines plainly. DOI
- lukefwalton.com-archive — a durable, dependency-free source archive of my writing, papers, music catalog, and public web corpus. DOI
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.



