Prismatic Labs

In public

Ideas and evidence, outside the repository.

Prismatic Labs takes its work into public, where other people can question it. This is the dated record: engineering talks, published writing, an international exhibition, and two prizes, first place at an AI safety hackathon and an Under-35 award in futures studies.

The subjects move from what can be changed now, inference waste and physical supply chains, to the longer question of how AI infrastructure should relate to the systems it depends on.

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Public record · 2026

Talks, writing, exhibitions.

Newest first. Each entry links to the host, the publication, the work, or the project.

Upcoming17 Nov2026

OxCyber · Online

Cost as an Attack Surface: Can You Stop a Denial-of-Wallet Attack?

One cheap prompt can trigger an expensive chain of inference, tool calls and retrieval while request volume stays flat. A live attack on a controlled AI endpoint, and the signals that catch runaway computation before budget caps force an outage.

Event page → Register →

Upcoming3–6 Nov2026

RISE Venture Salon · Lans, Austria

RISE Venture Salon: Physical AI

Selected as one of 15 startups for four days with 15 investors on physical AI and European technological sovereignty.

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15 Oct2026

Italian Institute for the Future · Award

Under-35 Prize, Convegno di Futures Studies

The Italian Institute for the Future gave one of its three Under-35 prizes for the best talks at the 2026 Convegno to AI simbiotica: un immaginario di lungo termine oltre il lungotermismo estrattivo, the first public statement of Symbiotic AI.

Announcement → About the idea →

25 Sep2026

Convegno di Futures Studies · Naples

Symbiotic AI

Presented Symbiotic AI on Panel 8 at the Italian Institute for the Future. In Italian.

About the idea → Programme →

17–18 Sep2026

Startup Summit · Lisbon

Startup Summit Lisbon 2026

Exhibited at Unicorn Factory Lisboa, Beato Innovation District.

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12 Aug2026

SoTA Letters · Essay

Slow, Not Scarce

A letter to the Society for Technological Advancement on Britain’s AI hardware supply chain. Its case is gallium, which the UK AI Hardware Plan never mentions: almost all of it is refined in China, none in Britain. Not rare, but slow to replace. How slow decides when to build, when to stockpile, and when a contract is enough.

Read the letter →

13 Jun2026

LISA x BlueDot Impact · Hackathon

Breaking Barriers to AI Safety

Culm won the hackathon run by the London Initiative for Safe AI with BlueDot Impact.

Open Culm → Hackathon →

3–7 Jun2026

CVPR Art Gallery · Exhibition

Virtual Water

Shown in the Computer Vision Foundation’s CVPR 2026 Art Gallery in Denver, alongside 114 works.

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30 Apr2026

DevOps Oxford · Talk

Green software is (generally) just good DevOps

Presented at DevOps Oxford: caching, right-sizing, RAG efficiency, and where lower cost does or does not mean lower emissions.

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19 Feb2026

Startup Huddle Oxford · Pitch

Startup Huddle Oxford

The first public presentation of Prismatic Labs, at the world’s largest Startup Huddle. Introduced Vetch and the company at BIPC Oxfordshire.

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Long-term vision

Symbiotic AI

This is what Prismatic Labs is for, over the long run. Vetch is the instrument we ship now. Symbiotic AI is the architecture we think the industry has to reach.

AI cannot run without the planet’s minerals, energy, and water. Those systems get little or nothing back. If anything, extraction often harms them. Symbiotic AI names the opposite: degrading a watershed, a grid, or a material supply would reduce the model’s capacity to operate. The biosphere stops being a reporting line and becomes a party in the system.

AI bound to the systems it depends on, rather than extracting from them.

First public statement

Convegno di Futures Studies 2026

Oltre gli orizzonti. Sguardi sul lungo termine

Where. Italian Institute for the Future, Naples.

When. 25 September 2026, Panel 8.

Language. Italian. The English name of the idea is symbiotic AI.

Recognition. One of three Under-35 prizes for the best talks at the Convegno, awarded by Fondazione IIF on 15 October 2026.

The HCI literature already uses “symbiotic AI” for human-machine collaboration. This usage is different: the coupling is between the machine and the biosphere.

Exhibited at CVPR 2026

Virtual Water

Computer Vision Foundation Art Gallery · Denver

A single lettuce leaf that cost real water to generate and will never be eaten. The piece applies the idea of virtual water, the water embedded in producing a good, to generative AI.

Shown alongside 114 works from 3 to 7 June 2026.

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Virtual Water: a single lettuce leaf with browning edges, placed off-centre on a plain white ground. — **Virtual Water** (2026). Exhibited in the Computer Vision Foundation’s CVPR 2026 Art Gallery, Denver.

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Two talks, adapted to the room.

Available for meetups, conferences, panels, and internal engineering sessions. Both start from work we built and can show.

Now · For engineers

Physical AI, in production

From wasted inference to gallium, grid bottlenecks, and where data centres are built. Using Vetch, Culm, and the UK compute maps, the talk asks where a dependency is concentrated and how long replacement would take. The answers lead to different controls: build, hold, recover, require portability, or waste less. For engineers, it ends with code, thresholds, and a runbook.

The destination · For anyone thinking longer

Symbiotic AI

The long-term vision of Prismatic Labs: how to couple a model’s operation to the natural systems that feed it. For futures, policy, design, and engineering audiences.

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