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AI governance and institutional accountability
Reviews examining how AI systems redistribute authority, create institutional duties and expose gaps between governance principles and enforceable controls.
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Research notes on how digital systems redistribute authority, legitimacy and control.
The archive reviews papers on AI, digital identity, public infrastructure, regulation and socio-technical systems. Each review extracts the institutional mechanism: who gains decision rights, which safeguards are operational, and where enforcement, revocation or redress remain absent.
73 reviews15 domainsUpdated 2026-08-03
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Digital identity and trust infrastructure
Work on identity, credentials, trust registries, assurance and the institutional mechanisms that make claims actionable across organisational boundaries.
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Digital public infrastructure and state capacity
Reviews connecting public digital rails to sovereignty, administrative capability, inclusion, procurement and the long-term control of essential infrastructure.
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Agent authority, delegation and redress
Papers concerned with who may act, how machine authority is bounded, what evidence proves mandate and how affected parties challenge or reverse consequential actions.
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Epistemic integrity and human capability
Research on deskilling, dependency, scientific reliability, language access and the institutional conditions required to preserve human judgement under automation.
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Governance beyond principles
Reviews that test whether governance claims are operational: whether authority, evidence, enforcement, revocation, accountability and remedy are actually implemented.
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AI Governance · 2026-08-03
Critique of Agent Model
arXiv
The paper correctly identifies that advanced agents redistribute control by internalising goals, identity, deliberation, and learning, but it mistakes architectural visibility for governability: an inspectable module is not an accountable institution unless authority, constraint, revocation, evidence, and redress are executable around it.
Law, Regulation & Liability · 2026-07-28
Targeted Report on Regulatory Challenges from Decentralised Finance
Financial Action Task Force (FATF)
FATF reframes DeFi regulation around observable control rather than claims of decentralisation, but its fallback for systems without an identifiable controller shifts enforcement toward adjacent intermediaries without defining the legitimacy, evidence standards, or redress required for that indirect control regime.
Socio-technical Systems · 2026-07-25
The AI Amplifier Effect: Defining Human-AI Intimacy and Romantic Relationships with Conversational AI
arXiv
AI companions do not merely simulate intimacy. They place the continuity, terms, and emotional consequences of a relationship under platform control while personalizing feedback loops that can intensify both recovery and withdrawal.
Socio-technical Systems · 2026-07-24
The Unintended Consequences of Large Language Models as a Labor-Augmenting Technology in Science
arXiv
LLMs do not merely reduce the cost of scientific work. By raising the opportunity cost of researcher time, they can redirect effort toward higher throughput, thinner development, and greater submission pressure, making institutional incentives rather than model accuracy the decisive governance problem.
AI Safety & Evaluation · 2026-07-12
‘God has helped us, and so will AI’: How the Terrorist Group Boko Haram Uses Frontier AI
Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy, University of Cambridge
The report shows that the relevant unit of AI misuse is not the isolated malicious prompt but the organization that can train specialists, distribute access, compare providers, and convert model output into operational routines. Safety governance built around single-user refusals will remain structurally inadequate unless it can address coordinated adversaries without turning platform monitoring into unaccountable security infrastructure.
Platform Governance & Internet Governance · 2026-07-12
Introducing AI to an Online Petition Platform Changed Outputs but not Outcomes
arXiv
Embedding generative AI into a civic platform did not merely assist users with prose. It standardized the language of participation while leaving participation and petition effectiveness unimproved, showing that interface defaults can centralize expressive power without producing corresponding public value.
Digital Identity · 2026-06-27
Strategic Identity Asymmetry: Why Digital Infrastructure Governance Fails Where Technology Succeeds in Brazil, Nigeria, and the Philippines
SSRN
Cross-border digital identity interoperability fails when states can issue credentials but cannot export trust. The paper's central contribution is to relocate the binding constraint from protocols and enrollment infrastructure to assurance grammar, accreditation authority, trusted lists, and institutional capacity.
Digital Public Infrastructure · 2026-06-26
Digital Public Infrastructure in Africa: A Leapfrog Catalyst for Inclusive Growth and Prosperity
United Nations Development Programme, Regional Bureau for Africa and Digital, AI and Innovation Hub
The paper establishes DPI as state capacity, fiscal infrastructure and continental bargaining power rather than a technology stack. Its unresolved governance problem is that it calls for safeguards, sovereignty and inclusion without specifying the enforceable controls, failure metrics and redress rails that would make those claims operational at population scale.
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AI Governance
Institutional authority, accountability, deployment controls and the allocation of AI-related risk.
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AI Safety & Evaluation
Evaluation regimes, assurance evidence, model behaviour and the limits of technical safety claims.
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Digital Public Infrastructure
Shared digital rails, public purpose, state capacity and the governance of essential infrastructure.
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Public Sector Digital Strategy
Government technology strategy, procurement, capability and public-sector transformation.
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Digital Identity
Identity systems, recognition, inclusion and the allocation of rights through digital credentials.
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Trust Infrastructure
Registries, attestations, assurance and the infrastructure through which trust claims become actionable.
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Standards, Protocols & Interoperability
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Cybersecurity & Resilience
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Law, Regulation & Liability
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Platform Governance & Internet Governance
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Socio-technical Systems
How technology, incentives and institutions jointly redistribute control, labour and legitimacy.
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State Capacity & Administrative Systems
Administrative capability, institutional memory and the machinery of public authority.
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Market rules, transaction systems, labour arrangements and the infrastructure of economic coordination.
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