Research, writing, and projects from Patrick Keough, independent AI evaluation researcher and writer in Sydney.https://pskeough.github.io/en-ushttps://pskeough.github.io/research/psych-scope/https://pskeough.github.io/research/psych-scope/A counterfactual audit of socioeconomic-cue bias in LLM mental-health assessment across three model families, showing an identical behavioral bias whose mechanism is model-idiosyncratic and mostly invisible to any single sparse dictionary.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTResearchhttps://pskeough.github.io/research/leave-the-image-alone/https://pskeough.github.io/research/leave-the-image-alone/A controlled pilot of 1,440 vision-model transcriptions showing that classical OCR preprocessing degrades transcription of legible documents, with raw images beating every enhancement condition for every model tested.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTResearchhttps://pskeough.github.io/research/the-listening-gap/https://pskeough.github.io/research/the-listening-gap/An audit of six production LLMs translating semantic audio descriptors into parametric EQ curves against a decade-old corpus of real engineer settings, showing that models collapse a contested human practice onto its consensus curve.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTResearchhttps://pskeough.github.io/research/psychbench-abliterated/https://pskeough.github.io/research/psychbench-abliterated/A ten-pair audit of base and abliterated open-weight models across 95,920 clinical screening observations, showing that demographic over-pathologization survives removal of the refusal direction.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTResearchhttps://pskeough.github.io/research/access-not-capability/https://pskeough.github.io/research/access-not-capability/A controlled audit with Robert H. Tai showing that on private-corpus question answering, retrieval does most of the work a frontier API is assumed to do, and a small local model with the same retrieved context is nearly indistinguishable from the frontier.Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTResearchhttps://pskeough.github.io/research/explanation-gap/https://pskeough.github.io/research/explanation-gap/A four-model audit of whether LLM self-explanations disclose the demographic drivers of their psychiatric-instrument scoring, showing that models name demographic features but credit them with a fraction of the score variance they actually drive.Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTResearchhttps://pskeough.github.io/research/thematic-consensus/https://pskeough.github.io/research/thematic-consensus/An iterative research framework extending the LLM-Quotient (LLMQ) reliability methodology to open, inductive qualitative coding of multilingual interview corpora.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTResearchhttps://pskeough.github.io/research/granularity-gap/https://pskeough.github.io/research/granularity-gap/A multi-dimensional cross-generational audit of sycophancy in Gemini models, showing that an LLM judge's binary verdict captures only 29% of the variance in its own severity scores.Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTResearchhttps://pskeough.github.io/research/psychbench/https://pskeough.github.io/research/psychbench/An epidemiological audit of LLM mental health simulation: 28,800 generations across 120 demographic cohorts, scored against survey-weighted NHANES anchors.Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTResearchhttps://pskeough.github.io/writing/major-works/the-basilisk/https://pskeough.github.io/writing/major-works/the-basilisk/An experiential psychological thriller set in the shadow of Roko's Basilisk. Menote wakes to find everyone dead and his memories gone, drawn toward a future he cannot escape as his mind fractures into Greek Titans and the prose unravels from modern literature into Homeric bicameral writing.Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTWritingMajor Workshttps://pskeough.github.io/writing/major-works/the-second-tree/https://pskeough.github.io/writing/major-works/the-second-tree/A philosophical travel journal spanning two and a half months across Prague, Kutna Hora, and Florence, capturing a fluid pursuit of gnosis while pressing against Christianity, Nietzsche, and the noise of modernity through the specific resistance of place.Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTWritingMajor Workshttps://pskeough.github.io/writing/short-fiction/anderermensch/https://pskeough.github.io/writing/short-fiction/anderermensch/A scavenger named Lepro is left to die on the surface, found by perfect immortal entities underground, and offered the same.Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTWritingShort Fictionhttps://pskeough.github.io/writing/short-fiction/in-magnum-opus/https://pskeough.github.io/writing/short-fiction/in-magnum-opus/Two ancient entities play chess for forty days. The winner takes a ruby ring and his opponent's life. The catastrophe arrives afterward.Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMTWritingShort Fictionhttps://pskeough.github.io/writing/short-fiction/gardening/https://pskeough.github.io/writing/short-fiction/gardening/A couple buys seeds that feed on human blood and tends them with clinical detachment. Short fiction.Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMTWritingShort Fictionhttps://pskeough.github.io/writing/short-fiction/people-of-the-crop/https://pskeough.github.io/writing/short-fiction/people-of-the-crop/A farming tribe lives under a sentient and tyrannical sun. A boy looks at it when he should not. The resulting sacrifice births a new caste, the maddened.Thu, 15 May 2025 00:00:00 GMTWritingShort Fictionhttps://pskeough.github.io/writing/short-fiction/oceanus/https://pskeough.github.io/writing/short-fiction/oceanus/A dying sailor narrates the slow sinking of his ship, and the men who came apart before the sea finished the work.Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTWritingShort Fictionhttps://pskeough.github.io/writing/short-fiction/seaside/https://pskeough.github.io/writing/short-fiction/seaside/A narrator falls for a man at the ocean without seeing his face, and leaves without looking back. Short fiction.Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMTWritingShort Fictionhttps://pskeough.github.io/writing/essays-and-poetry/a-labors-summation/https://pskeough.github.io/writing/essays-and-poetry/a-labors-summation/A 27-line poem on heroism, stripped of its mythology. 'To each a melody; none a symphony.'Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMTWritingEssays & Poetry