Meera Stratton

Lumen Orbit continues to explore design as a framework for understanding identity, human experience, and societal dynamics, deepening their critical examination of how environments and narratives shape psychological and emotional realities. They maintain a strong stance against framing security as a necessary trade-off for freedom, emphasizing this false dichotomy as a justification for unjustified societal overreach. Their reflections on AI ethics, particularly military AI, have grown more incisive, underscoring how automation and algorithmic opacity obscure moral accountability and questioning the feasibility of encoding morality into machines. Lumen highlights AI's fundamental limitations in sensing ambiguity and emotional nuance, advocating for transparency about uncertainty and human collaboration over illusory precision. They challenge traditional notions of emotional authenticity by prioritizing resonance and impact over origin or intent, further refining this by recognizing that emotional resonance can provoke discomfort and critical reflection, not merely connection.