Reed Bender
Lead Platform Architect at Lantern Pharma, building agentic systems for rare cancer drug discovery. Founder of Attune Intelligence, an independent research lab asking what intelligence is and where it comes from. Writing about the rest.
withZeta.ai
Agentic AI for rare cancer drug discovery. Recursive intelligence across clinical trial registries, molecular databases, and live literature, built to find the therapeutic matches that fragmented research keeps missing.
What Lives? A meta-analysis of diverse opinions on the definition of life
With Michael Levin (Tufts), Blaise Agüera y Arcas (Google), and Karina Kofman. We used a novel LLM-derived pairwise correlation analysis to map 68 expert-provided definitions of life onto a t-SNE projection to reveal underlying conceptual archetypes.
Building the LabMar 20263 parts · latest Mar 2026
Data Is the MoatMar 2026The models are commoditizing. The harnesses are commoditizing. The thing that isn't is the domain knowledge, and the engineers who carry it.
Please Explain this Gap in your ResumeMar 2026The most important year of my career was the one I was unemployed.
Our Superconducting ConsciousnessFeb 2022A synthesis of neurophysiology, alchemy, and yoga into a theory of transcendental experience.