Kathleen Erica Eberhardt is an industrial systems thinker, peer-reviewed national security author, and international cultural strategist with over four decades of experience bridging technology, emotion, and power. Her early graduate work in industrial engineering explored how unpredictability in machine behavior—first witnessed in classic AI environments like Pac-Man—could help humans engage with one another more thoughtfully. That idea, radical in its time, became the philosophical seed of Psychonics.
Prior to that, she facilitated critical dialogue in online legal education forums, developing tools for digital thought leadership before “virtual learning” had a name. Over the following 25 years, she applied her insights globally—helping to develop Jamaica’s international reggae industry and serving as Acting President of Libya (under the name Madame ATiA Al Houti, also known in-field as Katrain) during the country’s post-Civil War transitional moderation process.
Today, she is a peer-reviewed author in counterterrorism and digital security and the architect of a 5-phase conflict resolution and psychological recovery methodology now being used to train AI systems to identify and counteract emotional bias at scale.
KATRAIN.
She taught AI to feel. She made reggae a geopolitical tool. She ran Libya in a field coat.
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The Calibration Squad 