INDEPENDENT RESEARCH PRACTICE
Studying the systems behind serious AI.
A research practice connecting management, engineering, CSCW, network science, knowledge strategy, and human-centered design—built to explain how AI becomes useful, governable, and accountable in practice.
PERMANENT RESEARCH BRIEFS
Three programs forming the core of the current agenda.
Current theory workNetworked AccountabilityA mechanism-based theory of how review networks determine which risks are seen, whose uncertainty is believed, whether dissent survives, and when unresolved concerns escalate.Read research brief Research programRAIDopsA socio-technical operating framework for embedding ethics, assurance, human factors, and accountable review into the AI development lifecycle.Read research brief Literature reviewTrustworthy AI in National DefenseA Columbia research collaboration synthesizing governance, legal and ethical risk, technical assurance, human trust, and ethics-by-design across 138 sources.Read research brief
ADDITIONAL DIRECTIONS
Related inquiries remain visible in the broader practice.
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