A research problem
What happens when a system remembers something wrong about you?
A correction that improves tomorrow's answer can later become stale. Retained state can keep shaping decisions after the fact it was based on has changed, been disputed, or been formally corrected.
This program treats that gap as a governance problem, not only a technical one: what must be recorded about where the state came from, what must remain contestable, and what has to be reevaluated before a system keeps relying on it.
Relevant research
- The Persistent Primitive — requirements for correction, revocation, and temporal validity in governed continuity.
- Governing Relationship State — lawful continuing reliance as the central governance problem when relationship state remains available.
- Human Agency Under Consequential State — a correction and revalidation framework, reporting two bounded public-record pilots.
- When Correction Cannot Catch the System — separates an accepted correction from an effective one, and proposes temporal adequacy as a test of whether authority still reaches the reliance paths that remain.