
The Systems No One Wrote Down
Mapping a company's unwritten order is not preparation for AI work. It is the design work — and skipping it lets a second invisible order form.
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Mapping a company's unwritten order is not preparation for AI work. It is the design work — and skipping it lets a second invisible order form.

State v. Loomis shows how reports, rules of use, and accountable roles give a risk score institutional weight.

Bernard Jennings draws an architectural boundary around intelligence. His treatment of AlphaZero makes the proposal concrete and exposes its unresolved burden of proof.

The Off-Switch Game explains why an agent may benefit from waiting. Evidence from a working decision system shows what an organization must add.

A telex network proved useful during Chile's October 1972 strike. The larger cybernetic system associated with Cybersyn never became routine organizational practice.

Three bodies of theory with very different standing clarify the work that comes first: setting purpose, detecting material deviation, and making correction effective.

Bernard Jennings proposes a test based on a system's internal architecture. Organizations still have to decide what authority, if any, its output should carry.

Allegheny County tied the AFST to a default rule requiring investigation and reorganized screening around that rule. Policy made the model consequential.

Robodebt distributed aggregate income across periods that had not been observed. The process then treated the resulting figures as facts.

A working term for useful and responsible collaboration between people and AI systems inside organizations.