Open documentary assurance method for evaluating whether human authority retained practical force in AI-mediated institutional decisions.

Technical ideas often speak in equations and diagrams. These stories translate them into human language, preserving both their meaning and their consequences. Technology explains how systems work. Stories explain why anyone should care.

Reference implementation for the Registered Probative Object (RPO) — deterministic evidential bundle (sealed JSON + preview + public hash)

Peter Kahl reports HEPI to the Charity Commission for governance record inaccuracies and undeclared trustee interests, demanding transparency and compliance with fiduciary-epistemic duties in one of the UK’s most influential higher education think tanks.

Open letter to David Chalmers and David Bourget addresses serious fiduciary governance failures, conflicts of interest, and lack of transparency at PhilPapers, calling urgently for accountability and reform to protect epistemic justice in academia.

Local-first governance tool for assessing the long-term sustainability, maintainability, resilience, and organisational impact of AI-supported systems, workflows, curricula, and research projects.

OpenProof — Probative infrastructure standard Registered Probative Object (RPO): sealed JSON + human-readable PDF + public hash. Specification + reference demonstration.

This paper introduces ‘epistemic transposition’, reframing ethical and fiduciary duties as epistemic obligations grounded in epistemic humility. A novel contribution to virtue epistemology, fiduciary theory, and institutional accountability.

This paper develops Epistemic Clientelism Theory, analysing how academic institutions systematically delegate epistemic agency through clientelist exchange. It diagnoses fiduciary breaches, democratic failures, and epistemic injustices, and proposes fiduciary-epistemic governance reforms to restore autonomy and accountability.