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Thoughts on AI, work and human judgment.

Six connected essays on AI, organizational rituals and the rising cost of keeping judgment alive inside intelligent systems.

AI governance | Essay

The Ape in the Loop

The tired human asked to approve what the organization no longer understands.

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AI alignment | Essay

The Obedient Machine

How a useful, obedient AI can scale the dysfunction it was asked to serve.

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Verification | Essay

The Price of Truth

Reasonable trust at the wrong moment, and the invoice sent to human attention.

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Process debt | Essay

The Human Bridge

The people organizations place inside gaps they refuse to repair.

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Process design | Essay

The Fossil Process

The old processes that survive because nobody asks why they are still alive.

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Data quality | Essay

The Poisoned Field

The unresolved definitions that machines inherit as truth.

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