Publications
Research archive
Thirteen active single-author papers and preprints released or submitted through SSRN in 2026. Eleven are distributed and two are currently submitted for SSRN review. Each entry identifies its central question and present evidence status.
Foundational Research
- Revised August 27, 2026Distributed · v2.4
Operant Dyad: Defining the Task-Bound Working Relationship in Human-AI Systems
Defines a working relationship formed through repeated goals, correction, retained state, inspection, and revision.
- April 9, 2026Distributed · Preliminary evidence
Emergent Novelty in Human-AI Dyadic Systems: A Theoretical Framework and Preliminary Evidence
Proposes a measurable account of output that may arise from the interaction dynamics of a particular human–AI pairing.
- September 3, 2026Distributed
When Collaboration Becomes State: Formation Attribution in Persistent Human-AI Systems
Proposes relationship-derived operational state as a category and outlines three testable conditions for attributing persistent configurations to a specific human participant.
Human Capacity and Development
- September 5, 2026Distributed
The Human-Development Conversion Constraint: What Should Count as Progress in AI-Rich Societies?
Asks what evidence is required before increasing artificial capability can support a broader claim about human progress.
- September 5, 2026Distributed
Beyond Performance: A Diagnostic Method for Evaluating Human-Advancement Claims in AI-Mediated Systems
Provides a pre-validation method for deciding whether improved AI-mediated performance supports a claim about human advancement, remains unproven, or fails.
Persistent State, Authority, and Correction
Two records in this group share the title Human Agency Under Consequential State and are different papers. SSRN 7496758 is the research paper. SSRN 7509878 is the policy paper.
- August 21, 2026Distributed
The Persistent Primitive: Configuring Human-Governed Continuity for Persistent Human–AI Interaction
Derives requirements for provenance, validity, correction, authority, purpose limitation, revocation, and portability.
- August 26, 2026Distributed
Authority Does Not Travel by Default: Legal Provenance and Revalidation in Persistent Human–AI Continuity
Asks what a receiving system must reevaluate before it uses relationship state transferred across a technical or organizational boundary.
- September 5, 2026Distributed
Governing Relationship State: A Legal Framework for Human-Controlled AI Continuity
Identifies lawful continuing reliance—not technical possession—as the central governance problem when relationship state remains available after its authority has changed.
- September 21, 2026Distributed · Research paper
Human Agency Under Consequential State: Correction, Revalidation, and Recoverable Consequences in Persistent Computational Systems
Research paper. Develops a framework for the interval after consequential state changes and reports two bounded public-record pilots. Not the policy paper below.
- September 2026Submitted · Policy paper
Human Agency Under Consequential State: A Policy Framework for Correction, Revalidation, and Recoverable Consequences
Policy paper. Develops a Consequence Revalidation Framework and the idea of corrective continuity. A separate paper from the research paper above, not a version of it.
- September 23, 2026Submitted
When Correction Cannot Catch the System: Temporal Adequacy of Human Authority Over Consequential Personal State
Distinguishes accepted correction from effective correction and proposes temporal adequacy as a risk-bounded test of whether human authority over consequential personal state still reaches the materially consequential reliance paths that remain.
Environmental Partition
- September 13, 2026Distributed
The Water We Swim In: A Candidate Environmental Partition for Persistent Human-AI Interaction
Proposes a candidate provenance-and-control-surface partition between inherited human conditions and engineered synthetic conditions in persistent human-AI interaction, and restricts Ecotone to observable, activated boundary processes.
Methods and Measurement
- September 6, 2026Distributed
LiO v0.1: Deterministic Permission Composition Across Indispensable Inferential Bridges
Introduces a minimal composition primitive that determines which downstream assertion permissions survive every indispensable bridge in a declared derivation.
Methods in development
These methods and research directions are distinct from deposited publications.
WMM-01 · ECAM · OD-INV · Structural Reducibility · Human Capacity Protection · Carrier-localization protocols