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## Record ### CV: Luke F. Walton **Summary.** Academic CV for Luke F. Walton, affiliation Independent Researcher (San Diego, California). Areas of specialization: AI ethics; moral responsibility; philosophy of technology. Areas of competence: Social and political philosophy; social epistemology; philosophy of social science. Updated October 2026. Affiliation: Independent Researcher, San Diego, California. PhilPeople https://philpeople.org/profiles/luke-f-walton. ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0005-9263-1954. Areas of specialization: AI ethics; moral responsibility; philosophy of technology. Areas of competence: Social and political philosophy; social epistemology; philosophy of social science. Manuscripts under consideration (Manuscripts, not publications: these are at journals, not in them.): "The Captured Oracle: Authorship and Agency in the Ethics of Answer-Engine Optimization", AI and Ethics — Revise and resubmit; revision in peer review (resubmitted August 2026). DOI https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20676327. "Coupling Without Commitment: Jazz Improvisation and What Is Missing in Machine–Machine Interaction", Synthese — In peer review (submitted July 2026). Working papers: "The Seduction of Elegance: Shared Mathematics and the Parts of the World" — Preprint, October 2026. DOI https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23628075. "Pay Me What You Owe Me: On the Indefeasibility of the Demand for an Account" — Preprint, October 2026. DOI https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20606492. "Building Answerable AI: Why Automation Needs Owned Error" — Working paper, June 2026. DOI https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20682306. Software: "Answer Engine" — Software, 2026. A reference implementation for citation-grounded answerability. DOI https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20676773. In preparation: "The Description Is Not the Event: Exposure, and Why Standing Is Not an Object" — Manuscript. "Judgment, Authorization, and Japan’s Decision for War" — Manuscript. Education: M.B.A., San Diego State University, 2021. B.M., Popular Music, University of Southern California, Thornton School of Music, 2013, inaugural class of the Popular Music program. M.B.A.: San Diego State University, 2021. B.M., Popular Music: University of Southern California, Thornton School of Music, 2013. Inaugural class of the Popular Music program. Professional Appointments: Founder & Chief Executive Officer: Surmado, Inc., 2025–present. Senior Marketing Manager: Amazon, 2024–present. NAMM: 2018–2024. Associate Director, Marketing (2022–2024); Marketing Manager (2019–2022); Copywriter / Marketing Coordinator (2018–2019). Creative Project Manager: Tiny Giant Productions, 2014–2018. Operations Specialist: Google, 2013–2014. Google Glass, early commercialization. Creative Trainee: Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 2012–2013. Selected presentations: What Humans Own Now: Taste, Judgment and Creative Direction in an AI-Executed Org. Panel, AI for Marketers Summit (GSMI). Forthcoming, 24 February 2027. Agentic GTM in Practice: From Copilots to Delegated Workflows. Solo session, AI for Marketers Summit (GSMI). Forthcoming, 25 February 2027. AI Maturity in 2026: Building and Enabling the Modern Marketing Team. Keynote panel, AI for Marketers Summit (GSMI), 14 May 2026. The AI Playbook for Social Media Teams. Panel, Social Media Strategies Summit (GSMI), 13 November 2025. Additional Languages: Japanese, professional working proficiency. Selected Creative Work: records as Scoobert Doobert; sound producer for CHAI on "WHOLE," theme for the NHK drama Koisenu Futari (59th Galaxy Award, Television Special Prize), and "MY DREAM," theme for the film The Fish Tale (Sub Pop / Sony Music Japan). Co-writer and co-producer of bed's "Kare Wa 3.0," opening theme for the Fuji TV / Skybound drama Heart Attack (2025), Silver winner for Best Drama Series Made in Asia for a Regional or International Market at the ContentAsia Awards. "Don't Worry" reached #1 on 91X's Loudspeaker Top 5 (2021). Host of Love Music More. Produced and narrated Plato's Apology (2023). The Signatories (with Jonathan Gillie), novel in progress, 2026 Page Turner Writing Award finalist. The CV is a philosophy CV, not a resume: no argument summaries, no honors band, no corpus-stage language. It is the same record as the served PDF at /Walton-CV.pdf. Day job outside Surmado and music: Senior Marketing Manager, Amazon, 2024–present (Professional Appointments band). The Professional Appointments band lists Surmado and Amazon as separate current roles. It does not say Surmado was Amazon work, and it does not document that he founded or built Surmado while in that job. - Themes: Philosophy, AI, Answerability, Amazon - Record id: page:cv Archived from https://lukefwalton.com/cv/. Canonical: https://lukefwalton.com/cv/. This is a surface record: a normalized public-canon summary built from the same data modules as the live page, not a copy of the rendered page.