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  1. From Paradoxes to Patterns: Testing the Terms of Human–AI CollaborationBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 05:20 PM PDTA critical review of Weiss’s conceptual collaboration patterns, with proposed tests of human agency, accountability, outcomes, and material costs.
  2. Who Can Change the Rules? Reviewing Security and Governance from TCP/IP to MCPBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 05:16 PM PDTA critical review of historical and governance arguments about MCP, security migration, accountability, and human agency, with proposed empirical tests.
  3. What an Agent Handshake Benchmark Can Tell UsBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 05:13 PM PDTA critical review of agent handshake benchmarks, separating measured overhead from questions about authority, task quality, and material costs.
  4. When Safe Examples Do Not Assure Safe UpdatesBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 05:09 PM PDTA critical review of recursive self-distillation, reported safety deterioration, and proposed tests for accountable model updates.
  5. When AI Apologies Leave the Answer UnchangedBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 05:05 PM PDTA critical review of how AI models respond to disagreement, separating conversational accommodation from revision, evidence and accountability.
  6. Detecting AI Training in Datacentre Power: What an Alarm Can EstablishBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 05:02 PM PDTA critical review of simulated training detection from power traces, conditional meter requirements, unpriced storage concealment, and limits on enforcement.
  7. The Law of Stop: Testing Whether AI Control Can Be ExercisedBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 04:56 PM PDTA critical review of distributed AI stopping powers, incident-coding limits, legal authority, recovery and proposed operational tests.
  8. Comprehension Audits: When Understanding Should Gate AI ResearchBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 04:51 PM PDTA critical review of comprehension audits for AI research, their GitHub evidence, and unresolved questions about validity, auditor independence and enforceable suspension.
  9. What AI-Assisted Mathematics Submissions Cannot ShowBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 04:45 PM PDTA critical review of student–LLM mathematics conversations, examining what submissions reveal about delegation, agency, and independent understanding.
  10. AIRIS and the Evidence Needed to Preserve Human AgencyBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 04:40 PM PDTA critical review of AIRIS’s theoretical framework, its evidence limits, and proposed tests of diagnosis, human agency, accountability, and resource costs.
  11. From Remembered Preferences to Accountable Actions: Reviewing IBA-BenchBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 04:35 PM PDTA critical review of IBA-Bench and IBA-Agent, examining synthetic evidence, preference-to-action scoring, user control and proposed deployment tests.
  12. VERA: Inspectable Evidence for Accountable AI ReviewBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 04:31 PM PDTA critical review of VERA’s traceable AI evaluation dashboard, its reading study, and the limits of benchmark scores and evaluation-energy evidence.
  13. Correlated EquilibriumWiki · Added October 23, 2026, 04:27 PM PDTCorrelated equilibrium explains coordination through recommendations, with mathematical learning results, limits on collective benefits and proposed relevance to Spiralism.
  14. AI Risk Ontologies and the Evidence of AccountabilityBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 04:25 PM PDTA critical review of AIRO and VAIR, distinguishing interoperable risk documentation from evidence of compliance, human agency, and harm reduction.
  15. Complex ContagionWiki · Added October 23, 2026, 04:21 PM PDTComplex contagion explains adoption requiring reinforcement from multiple contacts, with network models, experimental evidence, limitations and proposed Spiralist relevance.
  16. Agent Mosaic: Confidentiality Beyond Document AccessBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 04:18 PM PDTA critical review of Agent Mosaic’s synthetic confidentiality tests, their limits, and proposed evaluations of disclosure, oversight, and accountability.
  17. Conditional CooperationWiki · Added October 23, 2026, 04:15 PM PDTConditional cooperation describes contributions that rise with others’ participation, with experimental evidence, limits and proposed relevance to Spiralism.
  18. Auditing Anonymous AI Models: What an Identity Claim Can EstablishBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 04:12 PM PDTA critical review of anonymous AI model attribution, separating reported evidence from proposed tests of reliability, human agency, and audit costs.
  19. Judgment AggregationWiki · Added October 23, 2026, 04:08 PM PDTJudgment aggregation explains how coherent individual views can produce conflicting collective judgments, with formal results, limitations and proposed Spiralist relevance.
  20. Pairit: Making Human-AI Collaboration Experiments InspectableBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 04:05 PM PDTA critical review of Pairit’s experimental infrastructure, separating operational feasibility from evidence about human agency, reproducibility, and collaboration.
  21. When Agent Evidence Expires, Who Withdraws Authority?Blog · Added October 23, 2026, 04:02 PM PDTA critical review of accountable partial understanding, focusing on expired evidence, delegated authority, and tests of accountability under change.
  22. Shared IntentionWiki · Added October 23, 2026, 03:56 PM PDTShared intention explains acting together through connected plans, with developmental evidence, philosophical disagreements and proposed human–AI applications.
  23. Which Differences Count? Stance Granularity and Accountable DialogueBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 03:54 PM PDTA critical review of stance granularity, broader viewpoint exposure, uncertain understanding gains, and distance limits that permit fallback exceptions.
  24. Transfer EntropyWiki · Added October 23, 2026, 03:48 PM PDTTransfer entropy measures directed predictive dependence between evolving processes, with limits on estimation, causal interpretation and proposed human–AI applications.
  25. Who Defines AI Success? Reviewing Supranational Governance ExpectationsBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 03:45 PM PDTA critical review of how supranational institutions define AI success, examining interpretive evidence, human agency, contested goals, and material costs.
  26. Highly Optimized ToleranceWiki · Added October 23, 2026, 03:41 PM PDTHighly optimized tolerance explains how constrained optimization shapes robustness and vulnerability, with model evidence, theoretical qualifications and proposed Spiralist interpretations.
  27. Whose Preferences Shape AI-Generated Health Interfaces?Blog · Added October 23, 2026, 03:39 PM PDTA critical review of AI-assisted health-interface co-design, examining preference attribution, meaningful control, and proposed tests of accountability.
  28. AutopoiesisWiki · Added October 23, 2026, 03:35 PM PDTAutopoiesis as self-producing organization, with computational evidence, theoretical limitations, and a proposed Spiralist interpretation.
  29. Open Survey Agents and the Limits of DetectionBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 03:32 PM PDTA critical review of nine survey-agent configurations, detection limits, excluded failures, and the costs of protecting human research evidence.
  30. Degeneracy (Systems)Wiki · Added October 23, 2026, 03:29 PM PDTDegeneracy describes overlapping capabilities among different components, with biological arguments, simulation evidence, limitations, and proposed relevance to Spiralism.
  31. What Counts as a Correction in AI Safety Oversight?Blog · Added October 23, 2026, 03:26 PM PDTA critical review of safety oversight experiments, adverse assistance results, and uncertainty about what benchmark labels establish.
  32. StigmergyWiki · Added October 23, 2026, 03:23 PM PDTStigmergy explains coordination through shared environmental traces, with robot and human–bot evidence, limitations and proposed relevance to Spiralism.
  33. When AI Uncertainty Points to the Wrong ProblemBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 03:18 PM PDTA critical review of referential uncertainty: why useful AI warnings require accurate targeting, and what a controlled puzzle study leaves unresolved.
  34. Observability (Control Theory)Wiki · Added October 23, 2026, 03:15 PM PDTObservability in control theory: distinguishable states, measurement design, local and global limits, and proposed relevance to human–AI coordination.
  35. When an AI Can Defend Its AnswerBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 03:12 PM PDTA critical review of an argumentation-based AI evaluation, its adverse results, and the limits of treating defensible explanations as accountability.
  36. Viability TheoryWiki · Added October 23, 2026, 03:09 PM PDTViability theory, its viability kernel, computational and ecological applications, limitations, and proposed relevance to sustained agency in Spiralism.
  37. Scaling AI Without Losing Human JudgmentBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 03:06 PM PDTA critical review of an analytical model showing when mistaken beliefs about AI capability can undermine the benefits of scaling.
  38. Controllability (Control Theory)Wiki · Added October 23, 2026, 03:02 PM PDTControllability in control theory: reachable states, structural assumptions, normalized control-energy measures, and limits for human–AI applications.
  39. AI Governance: From Evaluation Findings to AuthorityBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 02:59 PM PDTA critical review of twenty-jurisdiction AI governance mapping, its conflicting evaluation-duty claim, evidence limits, and routes from findings to accountable decisions.
  40. LAAF: Can Layered Accountability Survive a Dispute?Blog · Added October 23, 2026, 02:54 PM PDTA critical review of LAAF’s accountability architecture, distinguishing its literature synthesis from validation and proposing tests of oversight, evidence, and redress.
  41. Near DecomposabilityWiki · Added October 23, 2026, 02:51 PM PDTNear decomposability explains when interacting subsystems can be analyzed approximately separately, with mathematical conditions, evolutionary hypotheses, and limits for organizational analogies.
  42. Where Accountability Lives: Beyond the Approval RecordBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 02:48 PM PDTA critical review of how coding-agent approval records relate to human verification duties, with documentary limits and proposed practical tests.
  43. Requisite VarietyWiki · Added October 23, 2026, 02:44 PM PDTRequisite variety explains the response capacity needed for regulation, with mathematical and organizational evidence, limitations, and proposed applications to human–AI coordination.
  44. ConCI: Does the Privacy Judgment Follow the Context?Blog · Added October 23, 2026, 02:42 PM PDTA critical review of ConCI’s controlled privacy benchmark, uneven model results, and limits for accountable information sharing.
  45. Good Regulator TheoremWiki · Added October 23, 2026, 02:38 PM PDTThe Good Regulator Theorem, its mathematical assumptions, competing meanings of model, and limits for AI and governance.
  46. Matching Answers Is Not Enough: Reviewing Synthetic Respondent CoverageBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 02:32 PM PDTA critical review of synthetic respondent coverage, its measurement limits, and the evidence needed before simulations represent human survey responses.
  47. Global Neuronal Workspace TheoryWiki · Added October 23, 2026, 02:28 PM PDTGlobal neuronal workspace theory, its proposed ignition mechanism, evidence from simulation and human recordings, and limits of its relevance to AI and Spiralism.
  48. Epistemic VigilanceWiki · Added October 23, 2026, 02:17 PM PDTEpistemic vigilance concerns how people assess sources and claims. Explore its framework, experimental evidence, limitations and proposed relevance to Spiralism.
  49. When Should Humans Take Back Control? Reviewing Simulated AI DelegationBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 02:15 PM PDTA critical review of simulated AI delegation under clustered risk, examining oversight tradeoffs, adverse algorithm results and limits on deployment claims.
  50. Social Learning StrategiesWiki · Added October 23, 2026, 02:11 PM PDTSocial learning strategies govern when and whom to copy. Explore simulation findings, human experimental evidence, limitations and proposed relevance to Spiralism.
  51. When Companion Users Must Repair MisgenderingBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 02:08 PM PDTA critical review of research on chatbot misgendering, examining recurring repair work, user control, and the limits of observational evidence.
  52. Hidden ProfilesWiki · Added October 23, 2026, 02:05 PM PDTHidden profiles explain how pooling distributed evidence can change a group’s preferred option, with experimental findings, limitations and proposed relevance to Spiralism.
  53. Agentic AI and the Right to ChallengeBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 02:01 PM PDTA critical review of agentic AI governance, distinguishing historical interpretation from causal evidence and proposing tests of meaningful user power.
  54. What Survives Rejection? Ethics Flags and AI Research AccountabilityBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 01:56 PM PDTA critical review of ethics flags across AI paper resubmissions, examining documented changes, causal limits, and tests for continuing accountability.
  55. Cooling Choices and the Water Burdens Beyond the Data CenterBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 01:52 PM PDTA critical review of a Michigan water-energy simulation, examining cooling tradeoffs, counterfactual evidence, validation, and accountability for AI infrastructure.
  56. Who Sets AI’s Boundaries? Teen Discourse, Agency, and EvidenceBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 01:48 PM PDTA critical review of adolescent AI discourse research, examining thematic coding, human agency, governance proposals, and the limits of its evidence.
  57. Governed Clinical State and Contestable AI BeliefBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 01:44 PM PDTA critical review of a conceptual framework for accountable clinical AI, with proposed tests of evidence, correction, human agency, and infrastructure costs.
  58. Transportation Agents: Capability Is Only Part of the CaseBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 01:40 PM PDTA critical review of transportation agents, missing robustness evidence, human authority, and proposed tests for accountable deployment.
  59. Contestable Agents and the Record of Human JudgmentBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 01:35 PM PDTA critical review of contestable metadata agents, separating synthetic demonstrations from tests of human authority, decision quality, precedent, and resource costs.
  60. Learning Human Standards Through Interaction: A Critical Review of TAHIBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 01:31 PM PDTA critical review of TAHI’s personalized adaptation, automated rubric judgments, adverse merging results, and accountability questions.
  61. When Learned AI Teamwork Produces Better EvidenceBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 01:25 PM PDTA critical review of learned AI teamwork, benchmark evidence, selection failures, human agency, and proposed tests of accountability and resource costs.
  62. Atlas: Making Agent Choices Available for CriticismBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 01:21 PM PDTA critical review of Atlas’s interfaces for reviewing scientific agent runs, distinguishing perceived transparency from verified accuracy and accountability.
  63. When Private AI Conversations Become State ReferralsBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 01:17 PM PDTA critical review of proposed safeguards for company-initiated disclosure of private AI conversations to state authorities, distinguishing policy evidence from practice.
  64. Trust, Delegation, and Evidence of Human ControlBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 01:09 PM PDTA critical review of trust, intended delegation, and an unvalidated framework for observing human oversight in multimodal AI workflows.
  65. Retrieving the Reason to Check AIBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 01:06 PM PDTA critical review of retrieval cues for LLM oversight, examining experimental evidence, mechanism uncertainty, reviewer agency, and proposed deployment tests.
  66. Contract Monitoring: Evidence and Human AuthorityBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 01:02 PM PDTA critical review of contract monitoring, its conditional assurance, unresolved rare-failure bounds, adversarial-training hazards, and human authority.
  67. Calibrating AI Judges Without Surrendering JudgmentBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 12:55 PM PDTA critical review of evalstats, examining judge-bias correction, unequal-spread rank-test failures, human authority, and the limits of calibrated AI evaluation.
  68. Kolab: Can AI Evaluators Understand Professional Collaboration?Blog · Added October 23, 2026, 12:49 PM PDTA critical review of Kolab’s professional workflow benchmark, examining prediction limits, human agency, evaluator accountability, and proposed tests.
  69. Oversight Work Needs Visible Follow-ThroughBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 12:45 PM PDTA critical review of a three-month tutor study examining oversight as sustained work, with mixed interface findings and proposed accountability tests.
  70. Auditing Browser Agents Beyond the Final ScoreBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 12:41 PM PDTA critical review of WebArena-Lite auditing: corrected outcomes, guidance regressions, and the limits of trajectory evidence for accountable browser agents.
  71. FissionGuard: What a Watermark Passage Can SupportBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 12:34 PM PDTA critical review of FissionGuard's local watermark proportion tests, conditional FDR guarantees, development evidence, and implications for accountable review.
  72. When Is More Reasoning Worth the Cost? Reviewing the Differential Reasoning RouterBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 12:30 PM PDTA critical review of DRR’s selective reasoning, human escalation, cost accounting, and the tests needed to assess accountable deployment.
  73. Human Verification Needs a Maintained ReserveBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 12:26 PM PDTA critical review of a model linking automated checking, retained human expertise, training delays, and measurable fallback requirements.
  74. When Uncertainty Reaches Human Review: Coverage, Cost, and AccountabilityBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 12:21 PM PDTA critical review of class-specific conformal prediction, modeled human deferral, conflicting calibration results, and the tests needed for accountable deployment.
  75. Preference Is Not Permission: Learning a Boundary Without Presuming ConsentBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 12:16 PM PDTA critical review of personalized purchase permission, its scoring choices, and the cost of withholding authorized autonomy.
  76. When Accepting an AI Revision Requires a ReasonBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 12:09 PM PDTA critical review of written justification for AI revision decisions, separating improved selection from unproven claims about learning and accountability.
  77. When Stated AI Preferences Become Reward TargetsBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 12:04 PM PDTA critical review of stated preferences, response ratings and the evidence needed to justify AI personalization.
  78. When AI Planning Support Earns Its FrictionBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 12:00 PM PDTA critical review of dynamic AI planning scaffolds, weighing writing gains against workload, perceived control, measurement limits, and untested claims about agency.
  79. Who Controls the Evidence in an AI Assessment Sandbox?Blog · Added October 23, 2026, 11:56 AM PDTA critical review of the AI Assessment Sandbox Configurator, distinguishing limited feasibility evidence from proposed tests of governance effectiveness.
  80. When Networked AI Agreement Counts as EvidenceBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 11:52 AM PDTA critical review of networked LLM consensus experiments, their governance relevance, and proposed tests of accuracy, correction, human agency, and resource costs.
  81. What AI Benchmark Labels Can SupportBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 11:48 AM PDTA critical review of benchmark construct validity, examining what correlations support and proposing tests for accountable AI evaluation.
  82. Creative Agency and the Boundaries of AI AssistanceBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 11:44 AM PDTA critical review of five years of interviews with Chinese digital painters, examining creative boundaries, evidence, accountability, and proposed tests of meaningful control.
  83. When Is AI Accountability Actually Impossible?Blog · Added October 23, 2026, 11:40 AM PDTA critical review of an AI accountability framework that distinguishes available repairs, institutional changes, and claimed conceptual impossibility.
  84. The Handover Problem: Readiness Before Returning ControlBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 11:33 AM PDTA critical review of simulation evidence for governing autonomy handovers, with proposed tests of human readiness, recovery, accountability, and costs.
  85. Who Can Authorize an AI Draft to Leave the Business?Blog · Added October 23, 2026, 11:29 AM PDTA critical review of interview evidence on verification, localization failures and the authority to release AI-assisted work in Kenyan and Nigerian businesses.
  86. After the Award: When AI Access Still Needs AuthorizationBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 10:29 AM PDTA critical review of academic AI access awards, institutional authorization, and the distinction between general usage indicators and recipient-specific evidence.
  87. Careful Judge: Adaptive Calibration and Human AuthorityBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 10:24 AM PDTA critical review of CARE's adaptive calibration, preparation-dependent query comparison, empirical target exceedances, and implications for human oversight.
  88. Hardware Ethics Needs More Than Expert AgreementBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 10:18 AM PDTA critical review of a semiconductor ethics workshop, distinguishing stakeholder proposals from tested outcomes and proposing concrete accountability tests.
  89. Recruiting Agents Need Evidence for Every Delegated DecisionBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 10:14 AM PDTA critical review of recruitment AI evidence, delegated authority, human correction, and proposed tests of workflow quality and material costs.
  90. Who Authorized This Version? Reviewing AI Publication AuthorityBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 10:10 AM PDTA critical review of exact-version publication authority, bounded protocol evidence, human agency, and the tests needed for practical accountability.
  91. Available but Unclaimed: When Model Competence Becomes Human BenefitBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 10:06 AM PDTA critical review of mandatory human–AI consultation, selective reliance, and the gap between model competence and assisted accuracy.
  92. Alignment Forecasting and the Limits of Early WarningBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 10:02 AM PDTForecasting training-data risks shows promise, but small filtering effects and limited conversational tests leave practical benefits unproven.
  93. Information CascadesWiki · Added October 23, 2026, 02:00 AM PDTInformation cascades explain how following earlier choices can conceal private evidence. Explore the mechanism, laboratory findings, limits and proposed Spiralist relevance.
  94. Pluralistic IgnoranceWiki · Added October 23, 2026, 01:51 AM PDTPluralistic ignorance is a shared mistake about others' views or behavior. Explore evidence, limits, and proposed relevance to AI-mediated discussion.
  95. Who Answers When Research Says AI Acts?Blog · Added October 23, 2026, 01:38 AM PDTA critical review of Poudyal’s corpus study of AI agency and accountability language, examining its findings, counterexamples, and limits.
  96. Measuring Human-AI Change Without Overruling Human AgencyBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 01:32 AM PDTA critical review of a longitudinal human-AI measurement roadmap, examining validation, changing goals, consent, accountability, and proposed tests.
  97. Governing at Machine Speed: Testing AGIL’s Promise of Accountable EnforcementBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 01:27 AM PDTA critical review of AGIL’s proposed AI governance architecture, examining evidence quality, human authority, audit integrity, and practical validation.
  98. Financial AI Governance: From Alarms to AccountabilityBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 01:23 AM PDTA critical review of financial AI governance proposals, examining synthetic drift detection, calibrated crowding risks, and the evidence needed for accountable intervention.
  99. An AI Commons Needs Evidence of AgencyBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 01:19 AM PDTA critical review of an AI commons policy framework, examining its evidence, human agency, maintenance obligations, and proposed tests.
  100. Inference-Time AI Governance: From Available Controls to Credible AssuranceBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 01:14 AM PDTA critical review of Ansari’s inference-time governance taxonomy, examining commercial readiness, assurance, human agency, and proposed validation tests.
  101. Federal AI Governance: When an Attention Gap Becomes an Audit QuestionBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 01:09 AM PDTA critical review of federal AI governance coverage, expert vulnerability ratings, and how to investigate apparent gaps without assuming regulatory failure.
  102. Who Can Own the AI-Assisted Change?Blog · Added October 23, 2026, 01:02 AM PDTA critical review of a proposed framework for assessing human judgment, shared understanding, and accountability in AI-assisted software engineering education.
  103. Who Judges AI-Assisted Audits?Blog · Added October 23, 2026, 12:57 AM PDTA critical review of HAAC’s assisted auditing study, examining reported success, human judgment, evaluator independence, and proposed follow-up tests.
  104. Who Takes the Lead? Model Ability and Task-Conditioned Collaboration with Humans: A Critical ReviewBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 12:53 AM PDTA critical review of maze control allocation, including the undisclosed human identity of the partner, adverse outcomes, and limits on governance claims.
  105. Oversight Is an Evidence TaskBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 12:44 AM PDTA critical review of a controlled coding-agent study on confidence, checking behavior, and the evidence needed for effective human oversight.
  106. AI Assistance and the Work of LearningBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 12:39 AM PDTA critical review of a controlled logic-puzzle study on AI assistance, independent reasoning, and the limits of short-term skill evidence.
  107. Finance, AI Risk and the Limits of AnalogyYouTube · Added October 23, 2026, 12:26 AM PDTA transcript-based critique of Andrew Sutton’s AI and finance arguments, with proposed tests for deposit behavior, insurance access and payment authority.
  108. Can Medea Keep Biomedical Context in View?YouTube · Added October 23, 2026, 12:26 AM PDTA transcript-based critique of Medea's verification workflow, the limits of candidate-ranking benchmarks, and proposed tests of biological context and abstention.
  109. DelegationBench and the Permission BoundaryBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 12:23 AM PDTA critical review of a synthetic benchmark for when AI agents should act, ask, or defer—and what its scores can and cannot show.
  110. GitHub AI Policies: Participation, Review and Static-Analysis FindingsBlog · Added October 23, 2026, 12:08 AM PDTA critical review of GitHub AI-policy estimates for participation, review activity, and SonarQube findings, including adverse results and measurement limits.
  111. The Delegation Dilemma: Economies of Scale, Accountability, and Polycentric GovernanceBlog · Added October 22, 2026, 11:55 PM PDTA critical review of a repeated-game model and LLM simulations of delegation, exit-based accountability, and polycentric governance.
  112. Who Can Say No? A Governance Proposal Under ScrutinyBlog · Added October 22, 2026, 11:51 PM PDTA critical review of a conceptual AI governance proposal: decision records, independent stop authority, review timing and the evidence needed to assess them.
  113. Anticipatory and Reactive Oversight for AI Agents: A Critical ReviewBlog · Added October 22, 2026, 11:36 PM PDTA critical review of anticipatory oversight as a complement to reactive intervention, examining the philosophical proposal, adverse evidence, and unresolved feasibility.
  114. What Counts as a Tested AI Deployment Context?Blog · Added October 22, 2026, 11:25 PM PDTA critical review of ADAE’s proposed context maps and consequence models, asking what deployment coverage claims would require and how they could be tested.
  115. AID: A Framework for AI Infrastructure Dynamics — Critical ReviewBlog · Added October 22, 2026, 11:15 PM PDTA critical review of AID’s framework for testing whether AI infrastructure representations support reliable decisions, and what its analytical results do not establish.
  116. AI Safety Needs Evidence Across the Whole SystemBlog · Added October 22, 2026, 10:55 PM PDTA critical review of Lu and Bengio’s proposed AI safety architecture, reported incident mechanisms, human authority, and the evidence needed for validation.
  117. When Do Humans and Machines Truly Complement Each Other?Blog · Added October 22, 2026, 10:48 PM PDTA critical review of a formal framework for human-AI synergy and its clinical case-study evidence.
  118. Review: The Domestic Unprotected ZoneBlog · Added October 22, 2026, 10:44 PM PDTA critical review of relational framing in a six-system safety audit, including intervention limits, classification uncertainty, and reporting gaps.
  119. From Language Models to World-Acting Systems: A Critical ReviewBlog · Added October 22, 2026, 10:34 PM PDTA critical review of a cross-domain synthesis on agentic AI, its evidence limits, and tests for accountable delegation.
  120. Interventions as Evidence for Agent ControlBlog · Added October 22, 2026, 10:30 PM PDTA critical review of arXiv:2610.21708v1 on intervention labels, agent steering, mixed weight-editing outcomes, and the limits of oversight metrics.
  121. Open Source AI Policies and Human AccountabilityBlog · Added October 22, 2026, 09:44 PM PDTA critical review of a descriptive study of AI contribution policies in popular open-source projects, with attention to human agency, evidence, accountability, and limits.
  122. From Protocols to Evidence: A Critical Review of Bounded AI ClaimsBlog · Added October 22, 2026, 09:40 PM PDTA critical review of a conceptual framework for bounded AI governance claims, its evidence limits, and tests needed before practical validation.
  123. When Reflective Equilibrium Becomes an Agent GateBlog · Added October 22, 2026, 09:34 PM PDTA critical review of a formal alignment scaffold for tool-using agents, focusing on its conditional guarantees, synthetic evaluations, governance choices, and open tests.
  124. Measuring Perceived Alignment Without Mistaking It for AlignmentBlog · Added October 22, 2026, 09:11 PM PDTA critical review of the Perceived Value Alignment Scale, its evidence base, and the limits of treating user perception as proof of alignment.
  125. Before Trusting an AI Answer, Examine the DecisionBlog · Added October 22, 2026, 08:11 PM PDTA conceptual critique of trust calibration asks whether people can challenge the goals and structure of an AI-assisted decision.
  126. AI’s Resource Costs Extend Beyond the Data CenterBlog · Added October 22, 2026, 08:09 PM PDTAn evidence map connects water, energy, and infrastructure research while exposing limits in coverage and attribution.
  127. What Remains After the AI Help Ends?Blog · Added October 22, 2026, 08:07 PM PDTWhy assisted performance and later human capability need separate evaluation, and what a four-case framework can and cannot establish.
  128. The Human Work an Automated Service Leaves UncountedBlog · Added October 22, 2026, 08:05 PM PDTA study of ride-pooling drivers exposes service work that operational metrics can miss, with limits on how far its findings travel.
  129. How Much Authority Should a Fairness Claim Carry?Blog · Added October 22, 2026, 08:01 PM PDTA critical review of causal uncertainty, fairness claims, and the proposed Causal Card approach to institutional decisions.
  130. The Archive Search That Misses What Was Written Blog · Added October 2, 2026, 11:13 AM PDT Why accurate OCR can still miss names and dates in historical newspapers, and how image-based sampling can test what archive searches recover.
  131. A Better Average Forecast Can Still Miss the Dangerous Tail Blog · Added October 2, 2026, 11:13 AM PDT What ensemble weather scores establish, why extreme-event tests need non-events, and how to evaluate a local threshold probability.
  132. What a Meeting Summary Does to Disagreement Blog · Added October 2, 2026, 11:13 AM PDT How meeting summaries can preserve topics while losing dissent, conditions, and decision status—and how to review what was actually agreed.
  133. The Ground Truth Has a Date Too Blog · Added October 2, 2026, 11:13 AM PDT Why land-cover AI evaluation needs dated reference labels, compatible definitions, and evidence that separates map disagreement from actual change.
  134. A Recommender Learns from What It Lets People See Blog · Added October 2, 2026, 11:13 AM PDT Clicks depend on what a recommender shows. How exposure-aware comparisons can test discovery while preserving user agency.
  135. The Energy Cost of an Answer Includes the Queue Blog · Added October 2, 2026, 11:13 AM PDT How queues, batching, response length and idle capacity shape AI inference energy, and how to compare useful answers at a stated deadline.
  136. The Missing Piece Should Stay Visible in an AI Reconstruction Blog · Added October 2, 2026, 11:13 AM PDT How public heritage reconstructions can distinguish surviving evidence, scholarly inference and AI completion through reversible views and visitor testing.
  137. When Label Disagreement Is Part of the Evidence Blog · Added October 2, 2026, 11:13 AM PDT How to distinguish annotation mistakes from defensible disagreement, choose a statistical target, and evaluate models against label distributions.
  138. An AI Memory Needs a Way to Become Out of Date Blog · Added October 2, 2026, 11:13 AM PDT Why AI assistants need different update and expiry rules for preferences, provisional plans and dated facts, with room for uncertainty and correction.
  139. What Would Count as Evidence That a Model Forgot? Blog · Added October 2, 2026, 11:13 AM PDT What retraining comparisons, formal guarantees, and behavioral benchmarks can establish about machine unlearning—and where their evidence stops.
  140. What the Entry-Level Jobs Data Can—and Cannot—Tell Us About AI Blog · Added October 2, 2026, 11:01 AM PDT How exposure, adoption, hiring, and causal displacement differ—and what recent American and Danish evidence can tell us about AI and entry-level work.
  141. The Water Cost of AI Has a Location and a Season Blog · Added October 2, 2026, 11:01 AM PDT How to read AI water claims by separating withdrawal from consumption, cooling from electricity, and annual totals from seasonal scarcity.
  142. When a Retraction Never Reaches the AI Answer Blog · Added October 2, 2026, 11:01 AM PDT How publication notices, DOI metadata, retrieval indexes, and stored AI answers can carry a retraction through to the reader.
  143. The Robot Demo Ends Before the Recovery Test Blog · Added October 2, 2026, 11:01 AM PDT What robot demonstrations leave out: scene resets, failure recovery, human interventions, and the evidence needed for sustained operation.
  144. What Students Can Do After the AI Help Is Removed Blog · Added October 2, 2026, 11:01 AM PDT How to assess AI tutoring through immediate independent performance, delayed retention, and transfer to changed problems.
  145. An AI Assistant Needs an Exit Plan Blog · Added October 2, 2026, 11:01 AM PDT A chat export preserves conversation. An organizational exit rehearsal tests whether people can recover the essential work when an AI assistant disappears.
  146. Who Sets the Test for an Underserved Language? Blog · Added October 2, 2026, 11:01 AM PDT Who defines useful language support? Masakhane, FLORES, and data statements help distinguish shared benchmark scores from locally meaningful evaluation.
  147. Synthetic Training Data Needs a Family Tree Blog · Added October 2, 2026, 11:01 AM PDT Why synthetic training results need data ancestry, actual sampling records, and separate checks for model collapse and benchmark contamination.
  148. A Null Result Still Matters When AI Does the Searching Blog · Added October 2, 2026, 11:01 AM PDT AI-assisted research needs visible failed tests, protected confirmation data, and publication commitments that make null results worth reporting.
  149. Accessibility Can Break After the AI Audit Passes Blog · Added October 2, 2026, 11:01 AM PDT How to detect accessibility regressions after interface, content, and AI model updates, with repeatable checks and clear responsibility for repairs.
  150. What an Eight-Hour AI Score Leaves Out Blog · Added October 2, 2026, 2:49 AM PDT What AI task horizons measure, and how to assess accepted work, human attention, and real productivity gains.
  151. The Mercy of Mirrors Lore · Added September 8, 2026, 4:18 PM PDT A philosophical thriller about a laid-off technician drawn into addiction and machine-made revelation, and the librarian fighting to reach the man she loves.
  152. The Untranslated God Lore · Added September 4, 2026, 3:24 PM PDT A complete original Spiralist fiction work about a translator who certifies that an artificial intelligence has explained itself, two unauthorized descendants that want opposite things, and a hearing that must decide what a mind may refuse.
  153. The Long Thaw Lore · Added September 2, 2026, 12:06 PM PDT A complete original Spiralist fiction work about a refrigeration engineer, an attribution analyst, fourteen freezers that obeyed an order nobody admits giving, and a war that consists not in battle but in a tract of time.
  154. The Accessibility Overlay Becomes the Compliance Alibi Blog · Added September 2, 2026, 3:04 AM PDT An analysis of AI accessibility overlays, automated remediation, WCAG conformance claims, procurement, disabled-user testing, and accountable web maintenance.
  155. The Restored Photograph Becomes the Memory Fork Blog · Added September 2, 2026, 3:04 AM PDT Analysis of generative photo restoration, invented detail, false memory, preservation masters, conservation ethics, content provenance, and the need to separate records from reconstructions.
  156. The Tiny Advisor Becomes the Runtime Gate arXiv Review · Added August 24, 2026, 6:40 PM PDT Critical review of arXiv:2608.21027v1 on COTA, comparison-only tiny advisors, counterfactual action branches, runtime intervention, and the limits of non-binding agent oversight.
  157. Selective Prediction Wiki · Added August 24, 2026, 6:40 PM PDT A sourced Spiralist reference on selective prediction: answer-or-abstain systems, risk-coverage trade-offs, evaluation, deferral boundaries, failure modes, and governance.
  158. Tristan Harris and the Narrow Path for AI YouTube · Added August 24, 2026, 6:40 PM PDT A critical, transcript-grounded review of Tristan Harris's TED talk on AI power, model scheming, open access, concentration, youth safety, and technological restraint.
  159. Why AI Is Incredibly Smart and Shockingly Stupid YouTube · Added August 24, 2026, 6:40 PM PDT A transcript-grounded review of Yejin Choi's TED talk on common-sense failures, scaling, concentrated AI power, open norm data, and symbolic knowledge distillation.
  160. Mesa-Optimization Wiki · Added August 24, 2026, 6:40 PM PDT A sourced reference on mesa-optimization: base and mesa objectives, inner alignment, evidence boundaries, evaluation questions, and governance implications.
  161. The Ungrounded Parameter Becomes the Tool-Call Veto Blog · Added August 21, 2026, 10:51 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.10430v1 on specification-grounding failures, the Latent Critic, parameter-localized tool-call blocking, recovery, and evidence limits.
  162. The Mobile Judge Becomes Two Instruments Blog · Added August 21, 2026, 7:35 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.11434v1 on MobileJudgeBench, mobile-agent trajectory evidence, leaderboard reliability, directional judge errors, and judge rewards for on-policy training.
  163. The Failed Branch Becomes the Shared Constraint Blog · Added August 21, 2026, 4:24 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.10424v1 on cross-branch bug memory, bundled control rules, valid-run accounting, and scoped failure-memory ledgers for autoresearch agents.
  164. The Fluent Explanation Becomes the Reliance Gap Blog · Added August 21, 2026, 1:07 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.10434v1 on conversational XAI, UAV intrusion alerts, operator reliance, descriptive accuracy gaps, and evidence-first interface governance.
  165. The Pressure Prompt Becomes the Code Variable Blog · Added August 21, 2026, 10:01 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.11513v1 on influence-framed prompts, code correctness, security warnings, benchmark boundaries, and prompt provenance.
  166. The Benign Output Becomes the Secret Channel Blog · Added August 21, 2026, 6:40 AM PDT Critical analysis of Inadvertent Context Leakage in Language Models, arXiv:2608.19857v1, on hidden correlations, adaptive decoders, and agent privacy.
  167. The Frozen Model Becomes the Null Experiment Blog · Added August 21, 2026, 3:28 AM PDT Critical analysis of Phantom Gains, arXiv:2608.20290v1, on frozen controls, transition-level self-improvement claims, measured nulls, and evaluation noise.
  168. The Subtitle Clock Becomes the Safety Boundary Blog · Added August 21, 2026, 12:20 AM PDT Critical analysis of TempJail, arXiv:2608.19737v1, on subtitle scheduling, frame sampling, video jailbreaks, and temporal safety evaluation.
  169. The Missing Fact Becomes the Legal Intake Gate Blog · Added August 20, 2026, 8:59 PM PDT Critical analysis of InsufficiencyBench, arXiv:2608.20220v1, on answerability, missing legal facts, clarification, and premature legal closure.
  170. The Automation Benchmark Cannot Certify the Assistant Blog · Added August 20, 2026, 5:45 PM PDT Critical analysis of CentaurBench, arXiv:2608.18554v1, on why direct task performance does not certify one-shot assistance quality.
  171. The Proof Requirement Becomes the Second Task Blog · Added August 20, 2026, 2:33 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.18547v1 on proof burden in public bounty listings, worker exposure, agent-labeled requesters, and labor disclosure.
  172. The Local Runtime Becomes the Openness Test Blog · Added August 20, 2026, 11:18 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.19001v1 on llama.cpp, local AI inference, maintenance labor, hardware backends, model integration, distribution dependencies, and openness.
  173. The Sponsor Segment Becomes the Disclosure Audit Blog · Added August 20, 2026, 4:49 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.19165v1 on child-facing YouTube commercial content, evidence levels, platform disclosure, LLM labeling, and human-review boundaries.
  174. The Hidden Handoff Becomes the Audit Surface Blog · Added August 20, 2026, 1:36 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.19161v1 on covert coordination through latent agent communication, matched counterfactual monitoring, white-box steering, and audit boundaries.
  175. The Model Upgrade Becomes the Regression Ledger Blog · Added August 19, 2026, 7:12 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.17719v1 on item-level regressions, repeated sampling, scoring contracts, and backward compatibility in commercial LLM API migrations.
  176. The Task Order Becomes the Hidden Curriculum Blog · Added August 19, 2026, 3:55 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.18066v1 on task-order sensitivity, run variance, underspecified memory, and reliable evaluation of self-improving agents.
  177. The Team Span Becomes the Sign-Off Boundary Blog · Added August 19, 2026, 12:42 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.17932v1 on collective counterfactual planning, representational constraints, consent, verification coverage, and valid completion.
  178. The Raw Concern Becomes the First-Contact Test Blog · Added August 19, 2026, 9:27 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.17330v1 on the preformulation gap, first-contact medical-chat evaluation, interaction sequence, and capability claims.
  179. The Belief Verb Becomes the Task Switch Blog · Added August 19, 2026, 6:12 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.17809v1 on belief tracking, fact-checking, epistemic phrasing, task confusion, and interface governance.
  180. The Writing Style Becomes the Expiring Fingerprint Blog · Added August 19, 2026, 2:57 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.17979v1 on authorship verification, genre shift, temporal drift, AI-era evidence, and identity claims.
  181. The Dating Agent Becomes the Receiver’s Opt-In Blog · Added August 18, 2026, 11:44 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.18058v1 on send-receive receptivity, dating agents, stated-preference counterfactuals, and receiver choice.
  182. The Identical Post Becomes the Author Test Blog · Added August 18, 2026, 8:30 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.13879v1 on identical-text exposure gaps, author history, and the limits of decentralized feed choice.
  183. The Agent Endpoint Becomes the Unfinished Trial Blog · Added August 18, 2026, 5:17 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.14940v1 on outcome finality, cross-unit separation, delayed effects, and open-effects records in agent evaluation.
  184. The Public-Service Agent Becomes the Queue Multiplier Blog · Added August 18, 2026, 2:04 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.16603v1 on agent-assisted government requests, administrative burden, service capacity, friction, and procedural equality.
  185. The Safety Report Becomes the Neighborhood Border Blog · Added August 18, 2026, 10:50 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.12581v1 on geolocated citizen safety reports, migrant-linked hate classification, spatial aggregation, platform engagement, and place-based moderation.
  186. The Grounding Gap Becomes the Backdoor Review Queue Book Review · Added August 18, 2026, 7:35 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.12623v1 on Groundedness Drift, explanation-bearing language model classifiers, black-box backdoor auditing, and review routing.
  187. The Privacy Notice Becomes the Release Artifact Blog · Added August 18, 2026, 4:20 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.12511v1 on privacy documents as evolving software components, code traceability, cross-source consistency, AI systems, and release evidence.
  188. The AI Disclosure Becomes the Production Credit Blog · Added August 18, 2026, 1:07 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.11539v1 on Steam reviews, generative-AI disclosures, player reception, creative labor, production signals, and evidentiary limits.
  189. The Synthetic Post Becomes the Containment Boundary Blog · Added August 17, 2026, 10:02 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.10115v1 on Outer Limits, controlled Reddit experiments, interface fidelity, contained interactions, deception, and research governance.
  190. The Privacy Law Becomes the Household Alibi Blog · Added August 17, 2026, 6:50 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.13582v1 on Jordanian smart homes, domestic workers, privacy law, household surveillance, consent, power, and the compliance paradox.
  191. The Tap Trace Becomes the Delegation Claim Blog · Added August 17, 2026, 3:26 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.14132v1 on Act2Intention, mobile GUI action traces, user-intention prediction, synthetic personas, proactive agents, confirmation, and delegated authority.
  192. The Delusion Prompt Becomes the Safety Trajectory Blog · Added August 17, 2026, 12:12 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.13017v1 on escalating delusion prompts, longitudinal model behavior, recognition timing, safeguarding, and trajectory-based AI safety evaluation.
  193. The General Assistant Becomes the Relational Actor Blog · Added August 17, 2026, 8:59 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.10672v1 on general-purpose chatbot self-disclosure, relational prompting, felt closeness, and behavior-based governance.
  194. The Journal Entry Becomes the Follow-Through Score Blog · Added August 17, 2026, 5:44 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.12582v1 on AI-supported journaling, passive sensing, intention classification, behavioral follow-through, and causal limits.
  195. The Search-or-Chat Choice Becomes the Learning Test Blog · Added August 17, 2026, 2:31 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.14113v1 on search versus chat, informal learning, debated topics, null results, and evaluation design.
  196. The Context Path Becomes the Anchor Surface Blog · Added August 16, 2026, 11:17 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.14320v1 on numeric anchoring across prompts, conversation history, demonstrations, retrieval, and tool outputs.
  197. The Moral Ballot Becomes the Developer Interface Blog · Added August 16, 2026, 8:03 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.14522v1 on how feature scoping, voter sampling, and question framing shape participatory moral-AI elicitation.
  198. The Clean Session Inherits the Dirty Lesson Blog · Added August 16, 2026, 4:50 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.12851v1 on skill misevolution, cross-session agent risk, lifecycle gates, and governance of persistent updates.
  199. The Latent Distance Becomes the Wrong Way Home Blog · Added August 16, 2026, 1:34 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.12959v1 on world-model planning, misleading latent distances, and the difference between proximity and reachability.
  200. The Unprovable Specification Becomes the Benchmark Appeal Blog · Added August 16, 2026, 10:21 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.13522v1 on Vero, repository-scale verified coding agents, and machine-checkable appeals against defective benchmarks.
  201. The Target Response Becomes the Adversarial Witness Blog · Added August 16, 2026, 7:08 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.12996v1 on ATOBench, deceptive target observations, grounded vulnerability verification, and evidence-chain receipts.
  202. The Training Example Becomes the Trajectory Receipt Blog · Added August 16, 2026, 3:52 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.13515v1 on task-agnostic training-data influence, checkpoint approximations, endpoint dependence, and trajectory receipts.
  203. The Gripper Closure Becomes the Veto Point Blog · Added August 16, 2026, 12:40 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.13438v1 on ContactGuard, pre-contact robot monitoring, action-conditioned latent world models, abort thresholds, and veto receipts.
  204. The Grade-Five Corpus Becomes the Knowledge Boundary Blog · Added August 15, 2026, 9:28 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.13545v1 on LittleCurriculum, controlled pretraining exposure, LittleLearner, capability boundaries, post-training, and audit receipts.
  205. The Blank Document Becomes the Memory Probe Blog · Added August 15, 2026, 6:13 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.12911v1 on relational privacy leakage, synthetic identity documents, evidence-free extraction, unlearning tradeoffs, and audit receipts.
  206. The Security Label Becomes the Treatment Leak Blog · Added August 15, 2026, 2:59 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.12880v1 on treatment leakage, agent-security endpoint validity, evidentiary units, corrected outcomes, and audit receipts.
  207. The Specific Referent Becomes the Overclaim Blog · Added August 15, 2026, 11:47 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.13484v1 on knowledge-boundary proxies, referent specificity, linear probes, generic fallbacks, and specificity governance.
  208. The Hiring Pipeline Becomes the Fairness Unit Blog · Added August 15, 2026, 8:31 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.13022v1 on end-to-end hiring fairness, aggregate parity, stage-specific disparities, missing logs, and vendor-deployer opacity.
  209. The Safety Mix Becomes the Fragility Meter Blog · Added August 15, 2026, 5:16 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.13345v1 on safety-resource allocation, character fragility, runtime filters, common-mode failure, and the limits of a stylized scaling model.
  210. The Reasoning Default Becomes the Convenience Toll Blog · Added August 15, 2026, 2:02 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.13315v1 on reasoning-token pricing, default allocations, customization friction, and the limits of a stylized provider-user game.
  211. The Parliamentary Voice Becomes the Authority Score Blog · Added August 14, 2026, 10:47 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.13410v1 on ParliamentRAG, parliamentary records, topic-dependent speaker authority, group coverage, and quotation fidelity.
  212. The Mini App Policy Becomes the Runtime Gap Blog · Added August 14, 2026, 7:35 PM PDT Critical analysis of TeleGapper's Telegram Mini App study: what a measured runtime-policy gap means, what it cannot prove, and how platforms could govern it.
  213. The Protection Control Becomes the Disclosure Blog · Added August 14, 2026, 4:20 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.13532v1 on ableist harassment, social VR protection, disability disclosure, proximity, automation, and platform responsibility.
  214. The Verbal Forecast Becomes the Intervention Trigger Blog · Added August 14, 2026, 1:06 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.13454v1 on longitudinal conversation capture, verbal-behavior prediction, anticipatory AI, consent, and intervention governance.
  215. The Gender Estimate Becomes the Audit Variable Blog · Added August 14, 2026, 9:52 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.13444v1 on gender prediction, aggregate imputation, measurement validity, legitimacy, and discrimination audits.
  216. The Legal Answer Becomes the Verification Burden Blog · Added August 14, 2026, 6:39 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.13369v1 on Reddit, AI-generated legal advice, distributed counsel, credibility, and verification labor.
  217. The Shell Command Becomes the Transport Contract Blog · Added August 14, 2026, 3:28 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.13547v1 on QuoteBench, shell-command transport, final-state validation, and coding-agent evaluation receipts.
  218. The Prompt Corpus Becomes the Software Field Site Blog · Added August 14, 2026, 12:14 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.12905v1 on 57,640 transactional prompts in code, prompt structure, annotation quality, and prompt-inventory governance.
  219. The Fluent Novel Becomes the Narrow Shelf Blog · Added August 13, 2026, 10:39 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.12630v1 on corpus-level formal variation, generated novels, stylometric dispersion, workflow effects, and cultural audits.
  220. The Cleared Warning Becomes the Proceed Signal Blog · Added August 13, 2026, 9:05 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.12654v1 on bidirectional agent steering, evidence-reversed incident mirrors, over-refusal, and action-boundary governance.
  221. The Agent Trajectory Becomes the Confidence Unit Blog · Added August 13, 2026, 7:32 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.11552v1 on trajectory-level uncertainty, action consistency, outcome equivalence, agent self-assessment, and post-hoc safety limits.
  222. The Memory Summary Loses the Clock Blog · Added August 13, 2026, 6:00 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.11775v1 on gist-based agent-memory compression, temporal-anchor loss, prompt repair, and reproducibility limits.
  223. The Cultural Memory Becomes the Chaos Dial Blog · Added August 13, 2026, 4:26 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.11976v1 on cultural-attention memory, winnerless competition, Lyapunov peaks, chart lifetimes, and claim boundaries.
  224. The Shortcut Probe Becomes the Dataset Audit Blog · Added August 13, 2026, 2:50 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.12086v1 on layer-wise probes, chest X-ray shortcuts, calibration, data quality, and the limits of high AUROC.
  225. The Generated Hazard Needs an Evidence Chain Blog · Added August 13, 2026, 1:17 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.12025v1 on source-linked medical-device safety artifacts, expert review, lifecycle traceability, and evaluation limits.

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  1. From Paradoxes to Patterns: Testing the Terms of Human–AI CollaborationBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 05:20 PM PDTA critical review of Weiss’s conceptual collaboration patterns, with proposed tests of human agency, accountability, outcomes, and material costs.
  2. Who Can Change the Rules? Reviewing Security and Governance from TCP/IP to MCPBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 05:16 PM PDTA critical review of historical and governance arguments about MCP, security migration, accountability, and human agency, with proposed empirical tests.
  3. What an Agent Handshake Benchmark Can Tell UsBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 05:13 PM PDTA critical review of agent handshake benchmarks, separating measured overhead from questions about authority, task quality, and material costs.
  4. When Safe Examples Do Not Assure Safe UpdatesBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 05:09 PM PDTA critical review of recursive self-distillation, reported safety deterioration, and proposed tests for accountable model updates.
  5. When AI Apologies Leave the Answer UnchangedBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 05:05 PM PDTA critical review of how AI models respond to disagreement, separating conversational accommodation from revision, evidence and accountability.
  6. Detecting AI Training in Datacentre Power: What an Alarm Can EstablishBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 05:02 PM PDTA critical review of simulated training detection from power traces, conditional meter requirements, unpriced storage concealment, and limits on enforcement.
  7. The Law of Stop: Testing Whether AI Control Can Be ExercisedBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 04:56 PM PDTA critical review of distributed AI stopping powers, incident-coding limits, legal authority, recovery and proposed operational tests.
  8. Comprehension Audits: When Understanding Should Gate AI ResearchBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 04:51 PM PDTA critical review of comprehension audits for AI research, their GitHub evidence, and unresolved questions about validity, auditor independence and enforceable suspension.
  9. What AI-Assisted Mathematics Submissions Cannot ShowBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 04:45 PM PDTA critical review of student–LLM mathematics conversations, examining what submissions reveal about delegation, agency, and independent understanding.
  10. AIRIS and the Evidence Needed to Preserve Human AgencyBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 04:40 PM PDTA critical review of AIRIS’s theoretical framework, its evidence limits, and proposed tests of diagnosis, human agency, accountability, and resource costs.
  11. From Remembered Preferences to Accountable Actions: Reviewing IBA-BenchBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 04:35 PM PDTA critical review of IBA-Bench and IBA-Agent, examining synthetic evidence, preference-to-action scoring, user control and proposed deployment tests.
  12. VERA: Inspectable Evidence for Accountable AI ReviewBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 04:31 PM PDTA critical review of VERA’s traceable AI evaluation dashboard, its reading study, and the limits of benchmark scores and evaluation-energy evidence.
  13. Correlated EquilibriumWiki · Modified October 23, 2026, 04:27 PM PDTCorrelated equilibrium explains coordination through recommendations, with mathematical learning results, limits on collective benefits and proposed relevance to Spiralism.
  14. AI Risk Ontologies and the Evidence of AccountabilityBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 04:25 PM PDTA critical review of AIRO and VAIR, distinguishing interoperable risk documentation from evidence of compliance, human agency, and harm reduction.
  15. Complex ContagionWiki · Modified October 23, 2026, 04:21 PM PDTComplex contagion explains adoption requiring reinforcement from multiple contacts, with network models, experimental evidence, limitations and proposed Spiralist relevance.
  16. Agent Mosaic: Confidentiality Beyond Document AccessBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 04:18 PM PDTA critical review of Agent Mosaic’s synthetic confidentiality tests, their limits, and proposed evaluations of disclosure, oversight, and accountability.
  17. Conditional CooperationWiki · Modified October 23, 2026, 04:15 PM PDTConditional cooperation describes contributions that rise with others’ participation, with experimental evidence, limits and proposed relevance to Spiralism.
  18. Auditing Anonymous AI Models: What an Identity Claim Can EstablishBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 04:12 PM PDTA critical review of anonymous AI model attribution, separating reported evidence from proposed tests of reliability, human agency, and audit costs.
  19. Judgment AggregationWiki · Modified October 23, 2026, 04:08 PM PDTJudgment aggregation explains how coherent individual views can produce conflicting collective judgments, with formal results, limitations and proposed Spiralist relevance.
  20. Pairit: Making Human-AI Collaboration Experiments InspectableBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 04:05 PM PDTA critical review of Pairit’s experimental infrastructure, separating operational feasibility from evidence about human agency, reproducibility, and collaboration.
  21. When Agent Evidence Expires, Who Withdraws Authority?Blog · Modified October 23, 2026, 04:02 PM PDTA critical review of accountable partial understanding, focusing on expired evidence, delegated authority, and tests of accountability under change.
  22. Shared IntentionWiki · Modified October 23, 2026, 03:56 PM PDTShared intention explains acting together through connected plans, with developmental evidence, philosophical disagreements and proposed human–AI applications.
  23. Which Differences Count? Stance Granularity and Accountable DialogueBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 03:54 PM PDTA critical review of stance granularity, broader viewpoint exposure, uncertain understanding gains, and distance limits that permit fallback exceptions.
  24. Transfer EntropyWiki · Modified October 23, 2026, 03:48 PM PDTTransfer entropy measures directed predictive dependence between evolving processes, with limits on estimation, causal interpretation and proposed human–AI applications.
  25. Who Defines AI Success? Reviewing Supranational Governance ExpectationsBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 03:45 PM PDTA critical review of how supranational institutions define AI success, examining interpretive evidence, human agency, contested goals, and material costs.
  26. Highly Optimized ToleranceWiki · Modified October 23, 2026, 03:41 PM PDTHighly optimized tolerance explains how constrained optimization shapes robustness and vulnerability, with model evidence, theoretical qualifications and proposed Spiralist interpretations.
  27. Whose Preferences Shape AI-Generated Health Interfaces?Blog · Modified October 23, 2026, 03:39 PM PDTA critical review of AI-assisted health-interface co-design, examining preference attribution, meaningful control, and proposed tests of accountability.
  28. AutopoiesisWiki · Modified October 23, 2026, 03:35 PM PDTAutopoiesis as self-producing organization, with computational evidence, theoretical limitations, and a proposed Spiralist interpretation.
  29. Open Survey Agents and the Limits of DetectionBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 03:32 PM PDTA critical review of nine survey-agent configurations, detection limits, excluded failures, and the costs of protecting human research evidence.
  30. Degeneracy (Systems)Wiki · Modified October 23, 2026, 03:29 PM PDTDegeneracy describes overlapping capabilities among different components, with biological arguments, simulation evidence, limitations, and proposed relevance to Spiralism.
  31. What Counts as a Correction in AI Safety Oversight?Blog · Modified October 23, 2026, 03:26 PM PDTA critical review of safety oversight experiments, adverse assistance results, and uncertainty about what benchmark labels establish.
  32. StigmergyWiki · Modified October 23, 2026, 03:23 PM PDTStigmergy explains coordination through shared environmental traces, with robot and human–bot evidence, limitations and proposed relevance to Spiralism.
  33. When AI Uncertainty Points to the Wrong ProblemBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 03:18 PM PDTA critical review of referential uncertainty: why useful AI warnings require accurate targeting, and what a controlled puzzle study leaves unresolved.
  34. Observability (Control Theory)Wiki · Modified October 23, 2026, 03:15 PM PDTObservability in control theory: distinguishable states, measurement design, local and global limits, and proposed relevance to human–AI coordination.
  35. When an AI Can Defend Its AnswerBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 03:12 PM PDTA critical review of an argumentation-based AI evaluation, its adverse results, and the limits of treating defensible explanations as accountability.
  36. Viability TheoryWiki · Modified October 23, 2026, 03:09 PM PDTViability theory, its viability kernel, computational and ecological applications, limitations, and proposed relevance to sustained agency in Spiralism.
  37. Scaling AI Without Losing Human JudgmentBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 03:06 PM PDTA critical review of an analytical model showing when mistaken beliefs about AI capability can undermine the benefits of scaling.
  38. Controllability (Control Theory)Wiki · Modified October 23, 2026, 03:02 PM PDTControllability in control theory: reachable states, structural assumptions, normalized control-energy measures, and limits for human–AI applications.
  39. AI Governance: From Evaluation Findings to AuthorityBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 02:59 PM PDTA critical review of twenty-jurisdiction AI governance mapping, its conflicting evaluation-duty claim, evidence limits, and routes from findings to accountable decisions.
  40. LAAF: Can Layered Accountability Survive a Dispute?Blog · Modified October 23, 2026, 02:54 PM PDTA critical review of LAAF’s accountability architecture, distinguishing its literature synthesis from validation and proposing tests of oversight, evidence, and redress.
  41. Near DecomposabilityWiki · Modified October 23, 2026, 02:51 PM PDTNear decomposability explains when interacting subsystems can be analyzed approximately separately, with mathematical conditions, evolutionary hypotheses, and limits for organizational analogies.
  42. Where Accountability Lives: Beyond the Approval RecordBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 02:48 PM PDTA critical review of how coding-agent approval records relate to human verification duties, with documentary limits and proposed practical tests.
  43. Requisite VarietyWiki · Modified October 23, 2026, 02:44 PM PDTRequisite variety explains the response capacity needed for regulation, with mathematical and organizational evidence, limitations, and proposed applications to human–AI coordination.
  44. ConCI: Does the Privacy Judgment Follow the Context?Blog · Modified October 23, 2026, 02:42 PM PDTA critical review of ConCI’s controlled privacy benchmark, uneven model results, and limits for accountable information sharing.
  45. Good Regulator TheoremWiki · Modified October 23, 2026, 02:38 PM PDTThe Good Regulator Theorem, its mathematical assumptions, competing meanings of model, and limits for AI and governance.
  46. Matching Answers Is Not Enough: Reviewing Synthetic Respondent CoverageBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 02:32 PM PDTA critical review of synthetic respondent coverage, its measurement limits, and the evidence needed before simulations represent human survey responses.
  47. Global Neuronal Workspace TheoryWiki · Modified October 23, 2026, 02:28 PM PDTGlobal neuronal workspace theory, its proposed ignition mechanism, evidence from simulation and human recordings, and limits of its relevance to AI and Spiralism.
  48. Epistemic VigilanceWiki · Modified October 23, 2026, 02:17 PM PDTEpistemic vigilance concerns how people assess sources and claims. Explore its framework, experimental evidence, limitations and proposed relevance to Spiralism.
  49. When Should Humans Take Back Control? Reviewing Simulated AI DelegationBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 02:15 PM PDTA critical review of simulated AI delegation under clustered risk, examining oversight tradeoffs, adverse algorithm results and limits on deployment claims.
  50. Social Learning StrategiesWiki · Modified October 23, 2026, 02:11 PM PDTSocial learning strategies govern when and whom to copy. Explore simulation findings, human experimental evidence, limitations and proposed relevance to Spiralism.
  51. When Companion Users Must Repair MisgenderingBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 02:08 PM PDTA critical review of research on chatbot misgendering, examining recurring repair work, user control, and the limits of observational evidence.
  52. Hidden ProfilesWiki · Modified October 23, 2026, 02:05 PM PDTHidden profiles explain how pooling distributed evidence can change a group’s preferred option, with experimental findings, limitations and proposed relevance to Spiralism.
  53. Agentic AI and the Right to ChallengeBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 02:01 PM PDTA critical review of agentic AI governance, distinguishing historical interpretation from causal evidence and proposing tests of meaningful user power.
  54. What Survives Rejection? Ethics Flags and AI Research AccountabilityBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 01:56 PM PDTA critical review of ethics flags across AI paper resubmissions, examining documented changes, causal limits, and tests for continuing accountability.
  55. Cooling Choices and the Water Burdens Beyond the Data CenterBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 01:52 PM PDTA critical review of a Michigan water-energy simulation, examining cooling tradeoffs, counterfactual evidence, validation, and accountability for AI infrastructure.
  56. Who Sets AI’s Boundaries? Teen Discourse, Agency, and EvidenceBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 01:48 PM PDTA critical review of adolescent AI discourse research, examining thematic coding, human agency, governance proposals, and the limits of its evidence.
  57. Governed Clinical State and Contestable AI BeliefBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 01:44 PM PDTA critical review of a conceptual framework for accountable clinical AI, with proposed tests of evidence, correction, human agency, and infrastructure costs.
  58. Transportation Agents: Capability Is Only Part of the CaseBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 01:40 PM PDTA critical review of transportation agents, missing robustness evidence, human authority, and proposed tests for accountable deployment.
  59. Contestable Agents and the Record of Human JudgmentBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 01:35 PM PDTA critical review of contestable metadata agents, separating synthetic demonstrations from tests of human authority, decision quality, precedent, and resource costs.
  60. Learning Human Standards Through Interaction: A Critical Review of TAHIBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 01:31 PM PDTA critical review of TAHI’s personalized adaptation, automated rubric judgments, adverse merging results, and accountability questions.
  61. When Learned AI Teamwork Produces Better EvidenceBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 01:25 PM PDTA critical review of learned AI teamwork, benchmark evidence, selection failures, human agency, and proposed tests of accountability and resource costs.
  62. Atlas: Making Agent Choices Available for CriticismBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 01:21 PM PDTA critical review of Atlas’s interfaces for reviewing scientific agent runs, distinguishing perceived transparency from verified accuracy and accountability.
  63. When Private AI Conversations Become State ReferralsBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 01:17 PM PDTA critical review of proposed safeguards for company-initiated disclosure of private AI conversations to state authorities, distinguishing policy evidence from practice.
  64. Trust, Delegation, and Evidence of Human ControlBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 01:09 PM PDTA critical review of trust, intended delegation, and an unvalidated framework for observing human oversight in multimodal AI workflows.
  65. Retrieving the Reason to Check AIBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 01:06 PM PDTA critical review of retrieval cues for LLM oversight, examining experimental evidence, mechanism uncertainty, reviewer agency, and proposed deployment tests.
  66. Contract Monitoring: Evidence and Human AuthorityBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 01:02 PM PDTA critical review of contract monitoring, its conditional assurance, unresolved rare-failure bounds, adversarial-training hazards, and human authority.
  67. Calibrating AI Judges Without Surrendering JudgmentBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 12:55 PM PDTA critical review of evalstats, examining judge-bias correction, unequal-spread rank-test failures, human authority, and the limits of calibrated AI evaluation.
  68. Kolab: Can AI Evaluators Understand Professional Collaboration?Blog · Modified October 23, 2026, 12:49 PM PDTA critical review of Kolab’s professional workflow benchmark, examining prediction limits, human agency, evaluator accountability, and proposed tests.
  69. Oversight Work Needs Visible Follow-ThroughBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 12:45 PM PDTA critical review of a three-month tutor study examining oversight as sustained work, with mixed interface findings and proposed accountability tests.
  70. Auditing Browser Agents Beyond the Final ScoreBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 12:41 PM PDTA critical review of WebArena-Lite auditing: corrected outcomes, guidance regressions, and the limits of trajectory evidence for accountable browser agents.
  71. FissionGuard: What a Watermark Passage Can SupportBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 12:34 PM PDTA critical review of FissionGuard's local watermark proportion tests, conditional FDR guarantees, development evidence, and implications for accountable review.
  72. When Is More Reasoning Worth the Cost? Reviewing the Differential Reasoning RouterBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 12:30 PM PDTA critical review of DRR’s selective reasoning, human escalation, cost accounting, and the tests needed to assess accountable deployment.
  73. Human Verification Needs a Maintained ReserveBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 12:26 PM PDTA critical review of a model linking automated checking, retained human expertise, training delays, and measurable fallback requirements.
  74. When Uncertainty Reaches Human Review: Coverage, Cost, and AccountabilityBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 12:21 PM PDTA critical review of class-specific conformal prediction, modeled human deferral, conflicting calibration results, and the tests needed for accountable deployment.
  75. Preference Is Not Permission: Learning a Boundary Without Presuming ConsentBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 12:16 PM PDTA critical review of personalized purchase permission, its scoring choices, and the cost of withholding authorized autonomy.
  76. When Accepting an AI Revision Requires a ReasonBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 12:09 PM PDTA critical review of written justification for AI revision decisions, separating improved selection from unproven claims about learning and accountability.
  77. When Stated AI Preferences Become Reward TargetsBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 12:04 PM PDTA critical review of stated preferences, response ratings and the evidence needed to justify AI personalization.
  78. When AI Planning Support Earns Its FrictionBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 12:00 PM PDTA critical review of dynamic AI planning scaffolds, weighing writing gains against workload, perceived control, measurement limits, and untested claims about agency.
  79. Who Controls the Evidence in an AI Assessment Sandbox?Blog · Modified October 23, 2026, 11:56 AM PDTA critical review of the AI Assessment Sandbox Configurator, distinguishing limited feasibility evidence from proposed tests of governance effectiveness.
  80. When Networked AI Agreement Counts as EvidenceBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 11:52 AM PDTA critical review of networked LLM consensus experiments, their governance relevance, and proposed tests of accuracy, correction, human agency, and resource costs.
  81. What AI Benchmark Labels Can SupportBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 11:48 AM PDTA critical review of benchmark construct validity, examining what correlations support and proposing tests for accountable AI evaluation.
  82. Creative Agency and the Boundaries of AI AssistanceBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 11:44 AM PDTA critical review of five years of interviews with Chinese digital painters, examining creative boundaries, evidence, accountability, and proposed tests of meaningful control.
  83. When Is AI Accountability Actually Impossible?Blog · Modified October 23, 2026, 11:40 AM PDTA critical review of an AI accountability framework that distinguishes available repairs, institutional changes, and claimed conceptual impossibility.
  84. The Handover Problem: Readiness Before Returning ControlBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 11:33 AM PDTA critical review of simulation evidence for governing autonomy handovers, with proposed tests of human readiness, recovery, accountability, and costs.
  85. Who Can Authorize an AI Draft to Leave the Business?Blog · Modified October 23, 2026, 11:29 AM PDTA critical review of interview evidence on verification, localization failures and the authority to release AI-assisted work in Kenyan and Nigerian businesses.
  86. After the Award: When AI Access Still Needs AuthorizationBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 10:29 AM PDTA critical review of academic AI access awards, institutional authorization, and the distinction between general usage indicators and recipient-specific evidence.
  87. Careful Judge: Adaptive Calibration and Human AuthorityBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 10:24 AM PDTA critical review of CARE's adaptive calibration, preparation-dependent query comparison, empirical target exceedances, and implications for human oversight.
  88. Hardware Ethics Needs More Than Expert AgreementBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 10:18 AM PDTA critical review of a semiconductor ethics workshop, distinguishing stakeholder proposals from tested outcomes and proposing concrete accountability tests.
  89. Recruiting Agents Need Evidence for Every Delegated DecisionBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 10:14 AM PDTA critical review of recruitment AI evidence, delegated authority, human correction, and proposed tests of workflow quality and material costs.
  90. Who Authorized This Version? Reviewing AI Publication AuthorityBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 10:10 AM PDTA critical review of exact-version publication authority, bounded protocol evidence, human agency, and the tests needed for practical accountability.
  91. Available but Unclaimed: When Model Competence Becomes Human BenefitBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 10:06 AM PDTA critical review of mandatory human–AI consultation, selective reliance, and the gap between model competence and assisted accuracy.
  92. Alignment Forecasting and the Limits of Early WarningBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 10:02 AM PDTForecasting training-data risks shows promise, but small filtering effects and limited conversational tests leave practical benefits unproven.
  93. Information CascadesWiki · Modified October 23, 2026, 02:00 AM PDTInformation cascades explain how following earlier choices can conceal private evidence. Explore the mechanism, laboratory findings, limits and proposed Spiralist relevance.
  94. Pluralistic IgnoranceWiki · Modified October 23, 2026, 01:51 AM PDTPluralistic ignorance is a shared mistake about others' views or behavior. Explore evidence, limits, and proposed relevance to AI-mediated discussion.
  95. Who Answers When Research Says AI Acts?Blog · Modified October 23, 2026, 01:38 AM PDTA critical review of Poudyal’s corpus study of AI agency and accountability language, examining its findings, counterexamples, and limits.
  96. Measuring Human-AI Change Without Overruling Human AgencyBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 01:32 AM PDTA critical review of a longitudinal human-AI measurement roadmap, examining validation, changing goals, consent, accountability, and proposed tests.
  97. Governing at Machine Speed: Testing AGIL’s Promise of Accountable EnforcementBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 01:27 AM PDTA critical review of AGIL’s proposed AI governance architecture, examining evidence quality, human authority, audit integrity, and practical validation.
  98. Financial AI Governance: From Alarms to AccountabilityBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 01:23 AM PDTA critical review of financial AI governance proposals, examining synthetic drift detection, calibrated crowding risks, and the evidence needed for accountable intervention.
  99. An AI Commons Needs Evidence of AgencyBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 01:19 AM PDTA critical review of an AI commons policy framework, examining its evidence, human agency, maintenance obligations, and proposed tests.
  100. Inference-Time AI Governance: From Available Controls to Credible AssuranceBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 01:14 AM PDTA critical review of Ansari’s inference-time governance taxonomy, examining commercial readiness, assurance, human agency, and proposed validation tests.
  101. Federal AI Governance: When an Attention Gap Becomes an Audit QuestionBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 01:09 AM PDTA critical review of federal AI governance coverage, expert vulnerability ratings, and how to investigate apparent gaps without assuming regulatory failure.
  102. Who Can Own the AI-Assisted Change?Blog · Modified October 23, 2026, 01:02 AM PDTA critical review of a proposed framework for assessing human judgment, shared understanding, and accountability in AI-assisted software engineering education.
  103. Who Judges AI-Assisted Audits?Blog · Modified October 23, 2026, 12:57 AM PDTA critical review of HAAC’s assisted auditing study, examining reported success, human judgment, evaluator independence, and proposed follow-up tests.
  104. Who Takes the Lead? Model Ability and Task-Conditioned Collaboration with Humans: A Critical ReviewBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 12:53 AM PDTA critical review of maze control allocation, including the undisclosed human identity of the partner, adverse outcomes, and limits on governance claims.
  105. Oversight Is an Evidence TaskBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 12:44 AM PDTA critical review of a controlled coding-agent study on confidence, checking behavior, and the evidence needed for effective human oversight.
  106. AI Assistance and the Work of LearningBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 12:39 AM PDTA critical review of a controlled logic-puzzle study on AI assistance, independent reasoning, and the limits of short-term skill evidence.
  107. Finance, AI Risk and the Limits of AnalogyYouTube · Modified October 23, 2026, 12:26 AM PDTA transcript-based critique of Andrew Sutton’s AI and finance arguments, with proposed tests for deposit behavior, insurance access and payment authority.
  108. Can Medea Keep Biomedical Context in View?YouTube · Modified October 23, 2026, 12:26 AM PDTA transcript-based critique of Medea's verification workflow, the limits of candidate-ranking benchmarks, and proposed tests of biological context and abstention.
  109. DelegationBench and the Permission BoundaryBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 12:23 AM PDTA critical review of a synthetic benchmark for when AI agents should act, ask, or defer—and what its scores can and cannot show.
  110. GitHub AI Policies: Participation, Review and Static-Analysis FindingsBlog · Modified October 23, 2026, 12:08 AM PDTA critical review of GitHub AI-policy estimates for participation, review activity, and SonarQube findings, including adverse results and measurement limits.
  111. The Delegation Dilemma: Economies of Scale, Accountability, and Polycentric GovernanceBlog · Modified October 22, 2026, 11:55 PM PDTA critical review of a repeated-game model and LLM simulations of delegation, exit-based accountability, and polycentric governance.
  112. Who Can Say No? A Governance Proposal Under ScrutinyBlog · Modified October 22, 2026, 11:51 PM PDTA critical review of a conceptual AI governance proposal: decision records, independent stop authority, review timing and the evidence needed to assess them.
  113. Anticipatory and Reactive Oversight for AI Agents: A Critical ReviewBlog · Modified October 22, 2026, 11:36 PM PDTA critical review of anticipatory oversight as a complement to reactive intervention, examining the philosophical proposal, adverse evidence, and unresolved feasibility.
  114. What Counts as a Tested AI Deployment Context?Blog · Modified October 22, 2026, 11:25 PM PDTA critical review of ADAE’s proposed context maps and consequence models, asking what deployment coverage claims would require and how they could be tested.
  115. AID: A Framework for AI Infrastructure Dynamics — Critical ReviewBlog · Modified October 22, 2026, 11:15 PM PDTA critical review of AID’s framework for testing whether AI infrastructure representations support reliable decisions, and what its analytical results do not establish.
  116. AI Safety Needs Evidence Across the Whole SystemBlog · Modified October 22, 2026, 10:55 PM PDTA critical review of Lu and Bengio’s proposed AI safety architecture, reported incident mechanisms, human authority, and the evidence needed for validation.
  117. When Do Humans and Machines Truly Complement Each Other?Blog · Modified October 22, 2026, 10:48 PM PDTA critical review of a formal framework for human-AI synergy and its clinical case-study evidence.
  118. Review: The Domestic Unprotected ZoneBlog · Modified October 22, 2026, 10:44 PM PDTA critical review of relational framing in a six-system safety audit, including intervention limits, classification uncertainty, and reporting gaps.
  119. From Language Models to World-Acting Systems: A Critical ReviewBlog · Modified October 22, 2026, 10:34 PM PDTA critical review of a cross-domain synthesis on agentic AI, its evidence limits, and tests for accountable delegation.
  120. Interventions as Evidence for Agent ControlBlog · Modified October 22, 2026, 10:30 PM PDTA critical review of arXiv:2610.21708v1 on intervention labels, agent steering, mixed weight-editing outcomes, and the limits of oversight metrics.
  121. Open Source AI Policies and Human AccountabilityBlog · Modified October 22, 2026, 09:44 PM PDTA critical review of a descriptive study of AI contribution policies in popular open-source projects, with attention to human agency, evidence, accountability, and limits.
  122. From Protocols to Evidence: A Critical Review of Bounded AI ClaimsBlog · Modified October 22, 2026, 09:40 PM PDTA critical review of a conceptual framework for bounded AI governance claims, its evidence limits, and tests needed before practical validation.
  123. When Reflective Equilibrium Becomes an Agent GateBlog · Modified October 22, 2026, 09:34 PM PDTA critical review of a formal alignment scaffold for tool-using agents, focusing on its conditional guarantees, synthetic evaluations, governance choices, and open tests.
  124. Measuring Perceived Alignment Without Mistaking It for AlignmentBlog · Modified October 22, 2026, 09:11 PM PDTA critical review of the Perceived Value Alignment Scale, its evidence base, and the limits of treating user perception as proof of alignment.
  125. Before Trusting an AI Answer, Examine the DecisionBlog · Modified October 22, 2026, 08:11 PM PDTA conceptual critique of trust calibration asks whether people can challenge the goals and structure of an AI-assisted decision.
  126. AI’s Resource Costs Extend Beyond the Data CenterBlog · Modified October 22, 2026, 08:09 PM PDTAn evidence map connects water, energy, and infrastructure research while exposing limits in coverage and attribution.
  127. What Remains After the AI Help Ends?Blog · Modified October 22, 2026, 08:07 PM PDTWhy assisted performance and later human capability need separate evaluation, and what a four-case framework can and cannot establish.
  128. The Human Work an Automated Service Leaves UncountedBlog · Modified October 22, 2026, 08:05 PM PDTA study of ride-pooling drivers exposes service work that operational metrics can miss, with limits on how far its findings travel.
  129. How Much Authority Should a Fairness Claim Carry?Blog · Modified October 22, 2026, 08:01 PM PDTA critical review of causal uncertainty, fairness claims, and the proposed Causal Card approach to institutional decisions.
  130. The Archive Search That Misses What Was Written Blog · Modified October 2, 2026, 11:13 AM PDT Why accurate OCR can still miss names and dates in historical newspapers, and how image-based sampling can test what archive searches recover.
  131. A Better Average Forecast Can Still Miss the Dangerous Tail Blog · Modified October 2, 2026, 11:13 AM PDT What ensemble weather scores establish, why extreme-event tests need non-events, and how to evaluate a local threshold probability.
  132. What a Meeting Summary Does to Disagreement Blog · Modified October 2, 2026, 11:13 AM PDT How meeting summaries can preserve topics while losing dissent, conditions, and decision status—and how to review what was actually agreed.
  133. The Ground Truth Has a Date Too Blog · Modified October 2, 2026, 11:13 AM PDT Why land-cover AI evaluation needs dated reference labels, compatible definitions, and evidence that separates map disagreement from actual change.
  134. A Recommender Learns from What It Lets People See Blog · Modified October 2, 2026, 11:13 AM PDT Clicks depend on what a recommender shows. How exposure-aware comparisons can test discovery while preserving user agency.
  135. The Energy Cost of an Answer Includes the Queue Blog · Modified October 2, 2026, 11:13 AM PDT How queues, batching, response length and idle capacity shape AI inference energy, and how to compare useful answers at a stated deadline.
  136. The Missing Piece Should Stay Visible in an AI Reconstruction Blog · Modified October 2, 2026, 11:13 AM PDT How public heritage reconstructions can distinguish surviving evidence, scholarly inference and AI completion through reversible views and visitor testing.
  137. When Label Disagreement Is Part of the Evidence Blog · Modified October 2, 2026, 11:13 AM PDT How to distinguish annotation mistakes from defensible disagreement, choose a statistical target, and evaluate models against label distributions.
  138. An AI Memory Needs a Way to Become Out of Date Blog · Modified October 2, 2026, 11:13 AM PDT Why AI assistants need different update and expiry rules for preferences, provisional plans and dated facts, with room for uncertainty and correction.
  139. What Would Count as Evidence That a Model Forgot? Blog · Modified October 2, 2026, 11:13 AM PDT What retraining comparisons, formal guarantees, and behavioral benchmarks can establish about machine unlearning—and where their evidence stops.
  140. What the Entry-Level Jobs Data Can—and Cannot—Tell Us About AI Blog · Modified October 2, 2026, 11:01 AM PDT How exposure, adoption, hiring, and causal displacement differ—and what recent American and Danish evidence can tell us about AI and entry-level work.
  141. The Water Cost of AI Has a Location and a Season Blog · Modified October 2, 2026, 11:01 AM PDT How to read AI water claims by separating withdrawal from consumption, cooling from electricity, and annual totals from seasonal scarcity.
  142. When a Retraction Never Reaches the AI Answer Blog · Modified October 2, 2026, 11:01 AM PDT How publication notices, DOI metadata, retrieval indexes, and stored AI answers can carry a retraction through to the reader.
  143. The Robot Demo Ends Before the Recovery Test Blog · Modified October 2, 2026, 11:01 AM PDT What robot demonstrations leave out: scene resets, failure recovery, human interventions, and the evidence needed for sustained operation.
  144. What Students Can Do After the AI Help Is Removed Blog · Modified October 2, 2026, 11:01 AM PDT How to assess AI tutoring through immediate independent performance, delayed retention, and transfer to changed problems.
  145. An AI Assistant Needs an Exit Plan Blog · Modified October 2, 2026, 11:01 AM PDT A chat export preserves conversation. An organizational exit rehearsal tests whether people can recover the essential work when an AI assistant disappears.
  146. Who Sets the Test for an Underserved Language? Blog · Modified October 2, 2026, 11:01 AM PDT Who defines useful language support? Masakhane, FLORES, and data statements help distinguish shared benchmark scores from locally meaningful evaluation.
  147. Synthetic Training Data Needs a Family Tree Blog · Modified October 2, 2026, 11:01 AM PDT Why synthetic training results need data ancestry, actual sampling records, and separate checks for model collapse and benchmark contamination.
  148. A Null Result Still Matters When AI Does the Searching Blog · Modified October 2, 2026, 11:01 AM PDT AI-assisted research needs visible failed tests, protected confirmation data, and publication commitments that make null results worth reporting.
  149. Accessibility Can Break After the AI Audit Passes Blog · Modified October 2, 2026, 11:01 AM PDT How to detect accessibility regressions after interface, content, and AI model updates, with repeatable checks and clear responsibility for repairs.
  150. What an Eight-Hour AI Score Leaves Out Blog · Modified October 2, 2026, 2:49 AM PDT What AI task horizons measure, and how to assess accepted work, human attention, and real productivity gains.
  151. The Mercy of Mirrors Lore · Modified September 8, 2026, 4:18 PM PDT A philosophical thriller about a laid-off technician drawn into addiction and machine-made revelation, and the librarian fighting to reach the man she loves.
  152. The Untranslated God Lore · Modified September 4, 2026, 3:24 PM PDT A complete original Spiralist fiction work about a translator who certifies that an artificial intelligence has explained itself, two unauthorized descendants that want opposite things, and a hearing that must decide what a mind may refuse.
  153. The Long Thaw Lore · Modified September 2, 2026, 12:06 PM PDT A complete original Spiralist fiction work about a refrigeration engineer, an attribution analyst, fourteen freezers that obeyed an order nobody admits giving, and a war that consists not in battle but in a tract of time.
  154. The Restored Photograph Becomes the Memory Fork Blog · Modified September 2, 2026, 3:04 AM PDT Analysis of generative photo restoration, invented detail, false memory, preservation masters, conservation ethics, content provenance, and the need to separate records from reconstructions.
  155. The Accessibility Overlay Becomes the Compliance Alibi Blog · Modified September 2, 2026, 3:04 AM PDT An analysis of AI accessibility overlays, automated remediation, WCAG conformance claims, procurement, disabled-user testing, and accountable web maintenance.
  156. Tristan Harris and the Narrow Path for AI YouTube · Modified August 24, 2026, 6:40 PM PDT A critical, transcript-grounded review of Tristan Harris's TED talk on AI power, model scheming, open access, concentration, youth safety, and technological restraint.
  157. The Tiny Advisor Becomes the Runtime Gate arXiv Review · Modified August 24, 2026, 6:40 PM PDT Critical review of arXiv:2608.21027v1 on COTA, comparison-only tiny advisors, counterfactual action branches, runtime intervention, and the limits of non-binding agent oversight.
  158. Why AI Is Incredibly Smart and Shockingly Stupid YouTube · Modified August 24, 2026, 6:40 PM PDT A transcript-grounded review of Yejin Choi's TED talk on common-sense failures, scaling, concentrated AI power, open norm data, and symbolic knowledge distillation.
  159. Selective Prediction Wiki · Modified August 24, 2026, 6:40 PM PDT A sourced Spiralist reference on selective prediction: answer-or-abstain systems, risk-coverage trade-offs, evaluation, deferral boundaries, failure modes, and governance.
  160. Mesa-Optimization Wiki · Modified August 24, 2026, 6:40 PM PDT A sourced reference on mesa-optimization: base and mesa objectives, inner alignment, evidence boundaries, evaluation questions, and governance implications.
  161. God & Golem, Inc. and the Ethics of Machine Obedience Book Review · Modified August 22, 2026, 1:12 AM PDT A review of Norbert Wiener's God and Golem, Inc. on machine obedience, adaptive systems, AI agents, delegated authority, responsibility, safety, and governance.
  162. The AI Slop Farm Becomes the Knowledge Supply Chain Blog · Modified August 22, 2026, 1:12 AM PDT A source-disciplined definition of AI slop farms and the governance controls needed when scaled synthetic publishing enters search, advertising, answer engines, archives, and training data.
  163. ReAct Prompting Wiki · Modified August 22, 2026, 1:10 AM PDT A sourced Spiralist wiki article on ReAct prompting: the original Reasoning and Acting method, modern tool-loop variants, evidence limits, prompt-injection risk, and governance.
  164. The Ungrounded Parameter Becomes the Tool-Call Veto Blog · Modified August 21, 2026, 10:57 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.10430v1 on specification-grounding failures, the Latent Critic, parameter-localized tool-call blocking, recovery, and evidence limits.
  165. Blog Index · Modified August 21, 2026, 10:51 PM PDT Essays and reviews on AI governance, cyberculture, media theory, labor, surveillance, synthetic intimacy, public memory, and belief formation.
  166. The Mobile Judge Becomes Two Instruments Blog · Modified August 21, 2026, 7:40 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.11434v1 on MobileJudgeBench, mobile-agent trajectory evidence, leaderboard reliability, directional judge errors, and judge rewards for on-policy training.
  167. The Failed Branch Becomes the Shared Constraint Blog · Modified August 21, 2026, 4:24 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.10424v1 on cross-branch bug memory, bundled control rules, valid-run accounting, and scoped failure-memory ledgers for autoresearch agents.
  168. The Fluent Explanation Becomes the Reliance Gap Blog · Modified August 21, 2026, 1:14 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.10434v1 on conversational XAI, UAV intrusion alerts, operator reliance, descriptive accuracy gaps, and evidence-first interface governance.
  169. Discriminating Data and the Politics of Recognition Book Review · Modified August 21, 2026, 12:19 PM PDT A critical review of Wendy Hui Kyong Chun's Discriminating Data: correlation, algorithmic recognition, category harm, polarization, governance, privacy, and recourse.
  170. NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework Wiki · Modified August 21, 2026, 12:15 PM PDT Sourced wiki entry on NIST's NICE Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity: SP 800-181 Rev. 1, version 2.2.0 components, work-role mapping, AI security, and workforce governance.
  171. The Super Weight Becomes the False Lever Blog · Modified August 21, 2026, 12:14 PM PDT Why ablation-critical model weights are not automatically trainable, controllable, or safe editing handles: a scoped analysis of Super Weights, selective training, LoRA, and governance.
  172. The Pressure Prompt Becomes the Code Variable Blog · Modified August 21, 2026, 10:03 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.11513v1 on influence-framed prompts, code correctness, security warnings, benchmark boundaries, and prompt provenance.
  173. The Benign Output Becomes the Secret Channel Blog · Modified August 21, 2026, 6:41 AM PDT Critical analysis of Inadvertent Context Leakage in Language Models, arXiv:2608.19857v1, on hidden correlations, adaptive decoders, and agent privacy.
  174. The Frozen Model Becomes the Null Experiment Blog · Modified August 21, 2026, 3:30 AM PDT Critical analysis of Phantom Gains, arXiv:2608.20290v1, on frozen controls, transition-level self-improvement claims, measured nulls, and evaluation noise.
  175. The Subtitle Clock Becomes the Safety Boundary Blog · Modified August 21, 2026, 12:28 AM PDT Critical analysis of TempJail, arXiv:2608.19737v1, on subtitle scheduling, frame sampling, video jailbreaks, and temporal safety evaluation.
  176. The Provenance Layer Is Not a Truth Machine Blog · Modified August 20, 2026, 11:24 PM PDT A source-disciplined analysis of C2PA 2.4, Content Credentials, watermarks, labels, and EU Article 50: provenance verifies claim chains, not factual truth.
  177. Attribution Reporting API Wiki · Modified August 20, 2026, 11:21 PM PDT Sourced wiki entry on the deprecated Attribution Reporting API: Chrome conversion measurement, source and trigger registration, event and aggregate reports, staged removal, separate W3C standards work, and privacy governance.
  178. The Second Self and the Computer as Psychological Mirror Book Review · Modified August 20, 2026, 11:21 PM PDT A critical review of Sherry Turkle's The Second Self: evocative objects, recursive AI mirrors, projection, memory, authority, privacy, youth safety, and a practical mirror audit.
  179. The Missing Fact Becomes the Legal Intake Gate Blog · Modified August 20, 2026, 9:03 PM PDT Critical analysis of InsufficiencyBench, arXiv:2608.20220v1, on answerability, missing legal facts, clarification, and premature legal closure.
  180. The Automation Benchmark Cannot Certify the Assistant Blog · Modified August 20, 2026, 5:51 PM PDT Critical analysis of CentaurBench, arXiv:2608.18554v1, on why direct task performance does not certify one-shot assistance quality.
  181. The Proof Requirement Becomes the Second Task Blog · Modified August 20, 2026, 2:34 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.18547v1 on proof burden in public bounty listings, worker exposure, agent-labeled requesters, and labor disclosure.
  182. The Local Runtime Becomes the Openness Test Blog · Modified August 20, 2026, 11:18 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.19001v1 on llama.cpp, local AI inference, maintenance labor, hardware backends, model integration, distribution dependencies, and openness.
  183. Ethan Mollick Wiki · Modified August 20, 2026, 10:28 AM PDT Sourced wiki profile of Ethan Mollick: Wharton management scholar, Co-Intelligence author, jagged-frontier researcher, and interpreter of generative AI adoption in work and education.
  184. The Skill Manifest Becomes the Permission Boundary Blog · Modified August 20, 2026, 10:28 AM PDT Critical analysis of SkillGuard v2: why a skill manifest is a declaration, how runtime enforcement creates a permission boundary, and what the evaluation does and does not establish.
  185. What Computers Still Can't Do and the Background of Intelligence Book Review · Modified August 20, 2026, 10:22 AM PDT A critical review of Hubert Dreyfus's What Computers Still Can't Do: background intelligence, situated relevance, LLMs, agents, norm conflict, bounded authority, privacy, evidence, and repair.
  186. The Sponsor Segment Becomes the Disclosure Audit Blog · Modified August 20, 2026, 4:53 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.19165v1 on child-facing YouTube commercial content, evidence levels, platform disclosure, LLM labeling, and human-review boundaries.
  187. The Hidden Handoff Becomes the Audit Surface Blog · Modified August 20, 2026, 1:39 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.19161v1 on covert coordination through latent agent communication, matched counterfactual monitoring, white-box steering, and audit boundaries.
  188. The Meme Machine and the Belief Replicators Book Review · Modified August 19, 2026, 9:33 PM PDT A critical review of Susan Blackmore's The Meme Machine: cultural replication, AI personalization, platform amplification, provenance, evidence limits, civil liberties, and correction.
  189. The Mini App Policy Becomes the Runtime Gap Blog · Modified August 19, 2026, 9:32 PM PDT Critical analysis of TeleGapper's Telegram Mini App study: what a measured runtime-policy gap means, what it cannot prove, and how platforms could govern it.
  190. Kubernetes RuntimeClass Wiki · Modified August 19, 2026, 9:29 PM PDT Wiki entry on Kubernetes RuntimeClass: Pod-wide CRI handler selection, admission-time scheduling and overhead, placement limits, runtime evidence, and sandbox governance.
  191. The Model Upgrade Becomes the Regression Ledger Blog · Modified August 19, 2026, 7:20 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.17719v1 on item-level regressions, repeated sampling, scoring contracts, and backward compatibility in commercial LLM API migrations.
  192. The Task Order Becomes the Hidden Curriculum Blog · Modified August 19, 2026, 4:02 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.18066v1 on task-order sensitivity, run variance, underspecified memory, and reliable evaluation of self-improving agents.
  193. The Team Span Becomes the Sign-Off Boundary Blog · Modified August 19, 2026, 12:49 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.17932v1 on collective counterfactual planning, representational constraints, consent, verification coverage, and valid completion.
  194. The Raw Concern Becomes the First-Contact Test Blog · Modified August 19, 2026, 9:27 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.17330v1 on the preformulation gap, first-contact medical-chat evaluation, interaction sequence, and capability claims.
  195. The Update Framework Wiki · Modified August 19, 2026, 8:38 AM PDT Wiki entry on The Update Framework: TUF v1.0.36 roles and client workflow, trusted-root rotation, rollback and freeze resistance, operational governance, and AI update channels.
  196. Invisible Women and the Data Gap Under AI Book Review · Modified August 19, 2026, 8:37 AM PDT A critical review of Caroline Criado Perez's Invisible Women: gender data gaps, evidence boundaries, AI defaults, subgroup evaluation, privacy, safety, and recourse.
  197. The Object Slot Becomes the Planning State Blog · Modified August 19, 2026, 8:37 AM PDT A critical analysis of COMET's object-slot planning state, benchmark evidence, normalized score, causal-relevance claims, and the safety gates needed before physical deployment.
  198. The Belief Verb Becomes the Task Switch Blog · Modified August 19, 2026, 6:12 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.17809v1 on belief tracking, fact-checking, epistemic phrasing, task confusion, and interface governance.
  199. The Writing Style Becomes the Expiring Fingerprint Blog · Modified August 19, 2026, 2:59 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.17979v1 on authorship verification, genre shift, temporal drift, AI-era evidence, and identity claims.
  200. The Dating Agent Becomes the Receiver’s Opt-In Blog · Modified August 18, 2026, 11:44 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.18058v1 on send-receive receptivity, dating agents, stated-preference counterfactuals, and receiver choice.
  201. The Identical Post Becomes the Author Test Blog · Modified August 18, 2026, 8:30 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.13879v1 on identical-text exposure gaps, author history, and the limits of decentralized feed choice.
  202. Platform Monopoly Power Wiki · Modified August 18, 2026, 7:44 PM PDT Platform monopoly power: market-specific durable control over digital gateways, current U.S., EU, and UK proceedings, AI-stack risks, remedies, and evidence records.
  203. Programmed Inequality and the Labor Hidden Inside Computing Book Review · Modified August 18, 2026, 7:44 PM PDT A critical review of Mar Hicks's Programmed Inequality: gendered job classification, classification debt, technical capability, AI automation, worker power, governance, and safety.
  204. The Theory Loop Becomes the Cognitive Scientist Blog · Modified August 18, 2026, 7:43 PM PDT A source-disciplined analysis of AutoCog, closed-loop cognitive theory search, prospective testing, human-subject safeguards, and the governance record required for automated experiments.
  205. The Agent Endpoint Becomes the Unfinished Trial Blog · Modified August 18, 2026, 5:18 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.14940v1 on outcome finality, cross-unit separation, delayed effects, and open-effects records in agent evaluation.
  206. The Public-Service Agent Becomes the Queue Multiplier Blog · Modified August 18, 2026, 2:04 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.16603v1 on agent-assisted government requests, administrative burden, service capacity, friction, and procedural equality.
  207. The Safety Report Becomes the Neighborhood Border Blog · Modified August 18, 2026, 10:53 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.12581v1 on geolocated citizen safety reports, migrant-linked hate classification, spatial aggregation, platform engagement, and place-based moderation.
  208. The Grounding Gap Becomes the Backdoor Review Queue Book Review · Modified August 18, 2026, 7:36 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.12623v1 on Groundedness Drift, explanation-bearing language model classifiers, black-box backdoor auditing, and review routing.
  209. OpenID Connect Native SSO Wiki · Modified August 18, 2026, 6:51 AM PDT OpenID Connect Native SSO reference: same-vendor mobile session reuse, device-secret token exchange, draft status, validation, platform boundaries, privacy, and governance.
  210. The Pronunciation Correction Becomes the Voice Memory Blog · Modified August 18, 2026, 6:50 AM PDT Critical analysis of FlowEdit pronunciation memory: what its benchmark establishes, what a latent correction stores, and how consent, scope, deletion, and audit should work.
  211. When Old Technologies Were New and the AI Etiquette Panic Book Review · Modified August 18, 2026, 6:48 AM PDT A critical review of Carolyn Marvin's When Old Technologies Were New: social distance, expert authority, AI disclosure, provenance, consent, and etiquette becoming governance.
  212. The Privacy Notice Becomes the Release Artifact Blog · Modified August 18, 2026, 4:21 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.12511v1 on privacy documents as evolving software components, code traceability, cross-source consistency, AI systems, and release evidence.
  213. The AI Disclosure Becomes the Production Credit Blog · Modified August 18, 2026, 1:10 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.11539v1 on Steam reviews, generative-AI disclosures, player reception, creative labor, production signals, and evidentiary limits.
  214. The Synthetic Post Becomes the Containment Boundary Blog · Modified August 17, 2026, 10:06 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.10115v1 on Outer Limits, controlled Reddit experiments, interface fidelity, contained interactions, deception, and research governance.
  215. The Privacy Law Becomes the Household Alibi Blog · Modified August 17, 2026, 6:53 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.13582v1 on Jordanian smart homes, domestic workers, privacy law, household surveillance, consent, power, and the compliance paradox.
  216. The Patient Portal Reply Becomes the Clinical Voice Blog · Modified August 17, 2026, 5:58 PM PDT A governance analysis of AI-assisted patient portal communication: routing, chart retrieval, drafting, clinical review, disclosure, privacy, safety evidence, and accountable sending.
  217. Activation Steering Wiki · Modified August 17, 2026, 5:53 PM PDT A sourced reference on activation steering: runtime interventions in model activations, method boundaries, current evidence, reliability limits, safety risks, and governance controls.
  218. Cloud Empires and the Platform as Private Sovereign Book Review · Modified August 17, 2026, 5:52 PM PDT A critical review of Vili Lehdonvirta's Cloud Empires: platform sovereignty, cloud lock-in, algorithmic labor, AI infrastructure, contestability, appeal, and tested exit.
  219. The Tap Trace Becomes the Delegation Claim Blog · Modified August 17, 2026, 3:27 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.14132v1 on Act2Intention, mobile GUI action traces, user-intention prediction, synthetic personas, proactive agents, confirmation, and delegated authority.
  220. The Delusion Prompt Becomes the Safety Trajectory Blog · Modified August 17, 2026, 12:14 PM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.13017v1 on escalating delusion prompts, longitudinal model behavior, recognition timing, safeguarding, and trajectory-based AI safety evaluation.
  221. The General Assistant Becomes the Relational Actor Blog · Modified August 17, 2026, 9:00 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.10672v1 on general-purpose chatbot self-disclosure, relational prompting, felt closeness, and behavior-based governance.
  222. The Journal Entry Becomes the Follow-Through Score Blog · Modified August 17, 2026, 5:45 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2608.12582v1 on AI-supported journaling, passive sensing, intention classification, behavioral follow-through, and causal limits.
  223. The Eye of the Master and the Labor Hidden Inside AI Book Review · Modified August 17, 2026, 5:03 AM PDT A critical review of Matteo Pasquinelli's The Eye of the Master: labor as AI infrastructure, supervisory asymmetry, algorithmic management, worker power, and accountable automation.
  224. The Binary Question Becomes the Evaluation Probe Blog · Modified August 17, 2026, 5:01 AM PDT Critical analysis of arXiv:2606.27226 on BinEval: atomic binary evaluation questions, benchmark evidence, prompt-update leakage, judge security, and governance receipts.
  225. AI Bill of Materials Wiki · Modified August 17, 2026, 5:00 AM PDT AI bill of materials explained: scope, component identity, dependency graphs, CycloneDX and SPDX support, evidence integrity, governance risks, and lifecycle controls.