When machines do the work, people are left setting the limits.
Every instrument we have for setting limits on work — job design, code review, human oversight, privacy law — assumes a person is doing it. These papers ask what happens to each one when a system does the work instead.
Four papers, so far.
The Mixed Workforce Company
An interactive model for splitting work, authority, and accountability between people and AI.
Interactive paper · 12 min readDoes Code Still Need to Be Maintainable?
A small empirical benchmark: clean vs. deliberately sloppy code, graded by an AI agent doing six real maintenance tasks. Both variants passed every test; the difference showed up somewhere the tests never checked.
Interactive benchmark · 6 min readThe Human Exclusion Threshold
An interactive inquiry into the point where operational speed, complexity, and autonomy make meaningful human intervention impossible—and move human authority upstream.
Interactive model · Theory + labThe Right to Be Forgotten Needs Rewriting
Erasure works when a controller can find the thing it is deleting. In a trained model one person's data shifts millions of parameters without occupying a location, so the remedy has no target. This paper maps six layers at which deletion can happen, tests whether current unlearning survives adversarial probing and routine 4-bit compression, sets four European regulators' incompatible answers against each other, and argues for replacing erasure with a use restriction plus a process-based standard the controller has to prove.
Interactive paper · 15 min read