Leon (Liangzhi)

Guangdong University of Technology

• -Interdisciplinary training in digital marketing, supply chain management, business intelligence, and data structures — the process-thinking and data-driven decision habits I absorbed from business later became my distinctive entry point into AI: viewing a neural network's information flow as an "organization" to manage, and model behavior as a "decision chain" to govern. Trust is not granted once and for all — it is verified, tested, and repaired through continuous interaction. This insight from business practice later became the core framework through which I examine human-AI trust relations.
• -Self-studied philosophy in parallel with formal coursework — Socrates, Kant, and Wang Yangming became my first intellectual tools for asking whether machines can bear moral responsibility.

Phaenarete ASI Lab · Guangzhou Phaenarete AI Technology Co., Ltd.

• -Founded and lead neuro-symbolic AI research, embedding ethical reflection into engineering practice — not as an external "safety audit," but from the architecture level: when AI generates language, offers suggestions, and participates in reasoning, who bears responsibility for these utterances?
• -Manage GPU cluster infrastructure, training and fine-tuning custom LLMs. Every prompt debugging session, every RLHF calibration, is an experiment in the ownership of language — the machine outputs, but who is expressing?
• -Core inquiry: the quasi-subjectivity of machines in human-AI teams — where accountability begins and ends. When language no longer belongs exclusively to humans, where do trust and meaning reside? This is not merely an engineering question; it is the philosophical anchor of all my work.

Institut de Pratiques Philosophiques (IPP), France

• -Adapted Socratic maieutics (the art of intellectual midwifery) into self-correcting reasoning loops for AI systems — asking: can the act of questioning itself be algorithmicized? If not, where lies the gap between machine "conversation" and human dialogue?
• -Proposed and explored "dialogical presence" as a design principle for trustworthy human-machine interaction: genuine dialogue requires more than information exchange — it demands a presence capable of listening, responding, and taking responsibility for its own speech. When the speaker is not human, how is "presence" possible?

American Philosophical Practitioners Association (APPA)

• -Developed the "Seven Virtues of the North Star" ethical framework for philosophical practitioners — integrating Wang Yangming's liangzhi (innate moral knowing) with MacIntyrean virtue ethics. The driving force behind this framework: when the subjects of reasoning and speech are no longer exclusively human, how must traditional ethical frameworks be re-grounded?

QwenMath (Qwen Series)

• -Reproduced the data engineering pipeline of the QwenMath series — building and maintaining large-scale LLM pretraining data pipelines. This was my first encounter with language at an entirely different scale — not as communication between people, but as a torrent of text stripped of context, speaker, and intent. It was here that I began to ask: when language becomes data, where does meaning reside?
• -Gained an insider's view of the coupling between compute, algorithms, and data — a systemic perspective that later grounded my AI methodology. This "engineering intuition" became the foundation of my approach: not philosophizing about AI from a distance, but interrogating the boundaries of the system from inside the pipeline.

Guangzhou Prolangtuo E-commerce Co., Ltd.

• -Handled day-to-day cross-border e-commerce operations: store management, product selection, and data analysis — learning the logic of trust, commitment, and long-term relationship-building in a real commercial setting.
• -This was my primal experience of the question of trust and meaning — in an era before machines intervened in speech at scale, when language between people still carried its full weight. If language is the vessel of trust, can trust still be housed when the speaker is no longer human?