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Technical and litigation notes
Emergency Shutdown and the Liability of Inaction
The EU AI Act requires high-risk AI systems to have a human oversight mechanism capable of overriding or stopping the system. But the Act is silent on who bears liability when the shutdown mechanism fails to trigger.
AI Governance & RegulationEpistemic Engines — Who Decides What Is True?
The ground truth framework calibrates engine outputs against observable facts. But who decides what counts as ground truth? The answer to that question is a political and institutional decision, not a technical one.
AI Governance & RegulationSimulation and Digital Twins — Identity Without Consent
A behavioral digital twin is a parameterised model of a specific person. Running scenarios through it without their knowledge is not research — it is modeling a person's identity without consent.
Data Privacy & GDPRMemory Engines and the Right to Be Forgotten
A behavioral knowledge graph stores facts about a person derived from their interactions. GDPR gives that person the right to erasure. But deleting a fact from a graph without deleting the facts derived from it is not erasure — it is redaction.
AI Governance & RegulationEmotional and Psychological Engines — Diagnosis Without a License
Emotional regulation engines score behavioral indicators. The moment those scores use clinical language, the developer has crossed into diagnosis — an activity requiring a license.
AI Governance & RegulationBehavioral Prediction Engines and the Presumption of Innocence
Long-horizon behavioral prediction engines produce 90-day trajectories. This post examines when prediction becomes pre-judgment, and what legal protections should apply.