Economic & Market Infrastructure · 2026-09-16

Very Justified Envy

arXiv

Once a matching system permits bounded priority violations for efficiency, the threshold becomes an executable governance rule that determines whose institutional claim may be displaced and therefore requires legitimate authority, transparency and contestability.

AI Governance · 2026-09-16

Designing Loyalty: AI Agents and Conflicts of Interest

Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)

A duty of loyalty becomes governable only when delegated authority, conflicts of interest, execution boundaries, revocation, and evidence of action can be made observable and enforceable at the point an agent acts.

AI Governance · 2026-09-08

AI Agents Push Humans Out of the Loop

arXiv

Human oversight is not a governance control merely because a person remains in the loop; it is effective only while the system preserves the attention, expertise, independence, and decision capacity required to exercise authority over it.

Trust Infrastructure · 2026-09-07

Authority is a Continuous System

Zenodo

A continuity model can prevent downstream authority manufacture, but a governable system still needs explicit rules for how legitimate authority is created, revoked, disputed, and restarted.

Digital Identity · 2026-09-07

Announcing the 1.0 trust framework

Enabling digital identity, Office for Digital Identities and Attributes

A public trust mark is recognition infrastructure whose legitimacy depends on the independence, revocability, and contestability of the accreditation and certification chain behind it.

Digital Identity · 2026-09-04

Designing Agent IDs

Singapore AI Safety Hub (SASH) policy memo

An agent ID can make identity, provenance, and permission legible to a service, but it becomes governance infrastructure only when the authority behind those claims can be scoped, refreshed, revoked, contested, and independently trusted.