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How Much AI Is Actually Operating Inside Your Organization?
Ask how many AI systems your organization runs and you will get a number. Ask what each one can touch and you will get a silence. The inventory is where…
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Human Presence Is Not Human Authority
A human somewhere in the workflow does not mean a human is in control. What the law actually asks of “human oversight,” what the research says about whether people can…
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The Human Witness
The final part of The Evidence Chain. Robodebt treated a calculation as proof of debt; old payslips settled the truth, in both directions. As machines mediate more of what we…
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The Evidence Contamination Problem
Part 7 of The Evidence Chain. A government paid about A$440,000 for a review citing a judgment that does not exist. Labels show a machine touched something, not whether anything…
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The Correlated Decision Problem
Part 6 of The Evidence Chain. He applied at 12:55 a.m. and was rejected by 1:50. When many employers and lenders read you through the same model, a hundred rejections…
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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…
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Can You Reconstruct What Your AI Did?
Most organizations can describe their AI governance. Far fewer can reconstruct what happened when an AI-enabled decision goes wrong. Paper IV of Project Sentinel introduces the Reconstruction Principle and a…
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The FairByDesign Doctrine: Governing AI You Can’t Fully Understand
The full FairByDesign Doctrine Field Paper carries the complete three-pillar architecture, the five-level Evidence Hierarchy, the Reconstruction Spine and data-layer doctrine, role-by-role implications, Evidence Notes mapping every claim to its…