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AI, Authority & Human Judgment
How authority is allocated between people and AI systems, and where human judgment and oversight still matter.
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Enable: A Control No One Can Operate Is Not a Control
Part 2 of 5. Why naming an overseer is not the same as having one — five conditions that make human oversight usable, and a check for each person you are relying on.
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When AI Agents Cross the Line, Whose Governance Holds?
Two incidents reveal an older organizational problem in a new setting: the difference between possessing safeguards and exercising effective control.
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Governance Overbuilding and the Proportional Governance Floor
Part 3 of 3. Why stacking AI safety controls does not automatically improve governance, four governance traps, and a proportional, non-bypassable governance floor.
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When AI Becomes a Toggle
This essay revisits Lisanne Bainbridge’s 1983 paper Ironies of Automation through the lens of embedded enterprise AI, examining human oversight, escalation, operator skill, and the organizational design required when routine work disappears.