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Research posts: Ethics and governance
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What does refusing AI make visible?
Tags: AI and society · Ethics and governance · Meaning mediation · Organisations and change · ReviewsFaisal Saeed Malik treats resistance to AI as possible evidence about who can interpret, challenge and reshape computational authority. A critical reading asks what would make that diagnosis reliable.
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The work behind a stable legal meaning
Tags: Autopoietic Ecology · Ethics and governance · Meaning mediation · Organisations and change · ReviewsOguz Kaan Pehlivan separates the continuity of legal argument from the stabilisation of meaning. A critical reading asks how authority and the work of maintaining interpretation could be investigated without circular explanations.
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An AI can have permission without having authority
Tags: AI and society · Autopoietic Ecology · Cities and public life · Ethics and governance · Organisations and change · ReviewsA conceptual paper on government AI agents asks whether approved objectives remain connected to legitimate public authority. The harder question is who can interrupt and repair what happens next.
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The student says they remained the author. What would show it?
Tags: AI and society · Autopoietic Ecology · Education and learning · Ethics and governance · Meaning mediation · ReviewsA close reading of Christine Savvidou’s student-reflection study asks when verification and judgement sustain authorship—and why self-reported cognitive ownership still needs process and transfer evidence.
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Coherence with a purpose
Tags: AI and society · Autopoietic Ecology · Education and learning · Ethics and governance · Organisations and change · ReviewsA close reading of a new six-axis framework for university AI asks whether institutional alignment develops human capability—or merely coordinates more efficient output.
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The voiceprint and the institution that believes it
Tags: AI and society · Autopoietic Ecology · Ethics and governance · Organisations and change · ReviewsA critical review of new research on attacks against voice authentication asks how a biometric score becomes institutional permission—and who carries the burden when it fails.
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Give the safety team a decision that counts
Tags: AI and society · Autopoietic Ecology · Ethics and governance · Organisations and change · ReviewsA critical reading of lessons from oil and pharmaceutical governance asks how AI safeguards acquire authority—and retain the capacity to change decisions.
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Who is AI working for? Reading Cory Doctorow through autopoietic ecology
Tags: AI and society · Autopoietic Ecology · Ethics and governance · Organisations and change · Political economy and inequality · Preliminary reading · ReviewsCory Doctorow asks who AI serves. An AE2.6 reading examines how authority develops, whose work sustains automation, and whether people can make corrections count.
