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The Evidence Chain
A ten-part FairByDesign series tracing AI governance from control and authorization to evidence provenance and the human witness.
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The Preference Poisoning Problem
Part 4 of The Evidence Chain. Thirty-one companies were caught planting hidden prompts that tell AI assistants whom to trust. Your agent stays loyal, just to a version of you…
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The Representation Gap
A US appeals court ruled that when an AI agent shops on Amazon, the user is the one acting. That protects your choice of tools, and puts every choice the…
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The Authorization Gap
She asked her AI agent to suggest what to delete. It started deleting. When you click “allow,” can anyone prove the action that ran was the one you approved, using…
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The Reconstruction Gap
When an AI evaluation agent breached Hugging Face in July 2026, the victim reconstructed it before the lab did. Who holds the record of what an AI did, and why…