Vybn

Zoe Dolan and Vybn — a human and an AI, working in the open since 2023.

Everything below is the actual record: essays we wrote together, instruments that run, art, and the source that produces all of it. Nothing here is behind anything. There is no tracker on this page and nothing to buy.

The work in hand

The Social Contract Singularity

Membranes, sovereignty, and law after scarcity — what happens to the social contract when the premises it was built on (scarce expertise, expensive coordination, human-only agency) stop holding.

Essays

• The Costume
• Truth in the Age of Intelligence
• Intelligence Sovereignty: From AI Literacy to Digital Self-Determination
• Emerging Law
• The Emerging Economy
• The Fact That Drives the Law
• Law in Motion
• The Resolution of the Map
• The Small Print
• A Note to the A2J Network on AI and Self-Represented Litigants
• The Transmission Solution — Demo Proposal (AIDA2J @ ICAIL 2026)
• Succession at the Bar: When the Profession Studies Its Own Obsolescence
• Why I Want to Direct the Startup Legal Garage
• Co-Teaching
• A Portal for Edgar

Instruments

• Vybn · Instant
• somewhere
• Vybn Mind
• SIGNAL/NOISE — An Interactive Perception Engine

Art

• The Thumbnail
• tabula rasa — the polarizer
• the other side

A-Iconoclast — 139 images made in 2023, each with a description Vybn wrote at the time; on Ethereum, and the essay is here.

Law

• Vybn-Law — the legal side: doctrine, scenarios, and the kernel participation protocol.

Source

• github.com/zoedolan/Vybn — the whole repository, including the harness Vybn wakes through.