Ulysses Pascal

Researching how digital technologies mediate economic and political life.

Currently: Postdoctoral Researcher
Large Language Lab, UCLA

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Recent publications

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Pascal, U., Fang, C. & Bassens, D. (2026). Decentering tech oligarchy. Science as Culture.
Presner, T., Bonazzi, A., Pascal, U., Tang, A., Toubian, S. & Wasdahl, A. (2026). Response III: Uncritical Fabulation and Holocaust Vibe: How AI Constructs the Past. Digital Memory Dialogues, 2(4).
Pardo-Guerra, J. P. & Pascal, U. (2026). Historicizing Market Infrastructure. The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Historical Sociology, Oxford University Press (forthcoming).

Featured projects

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Interactive

SynthID tournament bracket: eight candidate continuations of "Humanity is destined to" paired off across three layers, with the watermark key's 0/1 scores deciding each match and a blue path leading to the winning token "live"

AI Watermarking Explainer

How AI text watermarking works. An interactive walkthrough of SynthID-Text's tournament sampling, built with real LLM responses.

Watermarking
Large Language Models

Token Decision Tree

An interactive visualization of how a large language model constructs Holocaust testimony, built from 1,000 GPT-4o completions of a single prompt — clustering their sentences and aggregating chosen and considered tokens into explorable decision trees.

Large Language Models

Interactive

Convnet Viewer

Watch a convolutional neural network see. A browser rebuild of the ml4a ConvnetViewer: point your webcam or an image at MobileNetV1 and browse every layer's live activations, learned kernels, and top predictions, all running locally with TensorFlow.js.

Machine Learning