The core argument of the Atlas is that we must change how we study artificial intelligence. Traditional software engineering treats bugs as errors to be patched. However, in a system with trillions of parameters, an anomaly is often a feature of complexity itself.
Like a snake eating its tail, artificial intelligence exists in a circular relationship with its human creators. The Atlas of Anomalous AI is the map that finally begins to trace that ouroboric connection in all its beauty, strangeness, and power.
