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    Studies

    This is the primary archive index. It brings together published working papers, committed instruments, and preserved legacy records while keeping original public addresses intact.

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    The Sparring Partner Study: How enterprise AI handles strategic decisions from senior executives

    Published testing method

    Testing method

    Methodology locked in, 6 July 2026

    Method and grading rules

    The committed prompt set and scoring criteria for a comparative study of how different AI setups respond to strategic decisions from senior leaders. Five scenarios run through three setups each, producing fifteen answers scored blind on whether they take a clear position, add fresh insight, and serve as material a senior leader could debate. The methodology was locked before any outputs were generated.

    The Mandate Study

    Published working paper

    Working paper

    Published July 2026

    Organisational pressure and adoption

    A public-record study of how large organisations require, incentivise, and formalise AI engagement through mandates, incentives, training, workflow integration, and board-level expectation.

    The Executive Access Study

    Published working paper

    Working paper

    Published July 2026

    Executive access and disclosure

    A review of the public record revealing the significant corporate disclosure gap regarding exactly how senior executives at large organisations access AI capabilities.

    The Unread Instruction

    Published working paper

    Working paper

    Published July 2026

    System prompts and governance oversight

    A reading of nine public frameworks that guide boards and audit leaders on AI oversight. None require anyone to know about the organisation-authored instruction that controls what the AI produces: who wrote it, when it was last changed, or how it affects answers. The phrase "system prompt" does not appear in any document reviewed.

    The Override Rank Cannot Reach

    Published working paper

    Working paper

    Published July 2026

    Deployment controls and rank-insensitive override logic

    A documentary reading of seven enterprise AI deployments showing that public administration and compliance documentation does not recognise executive rank as a query-time basis for varying the governed layer.

    The Liability Transfer

    Published working paper

    Working paper

    Published July 2026

    Responsibility and controls in enterprise AI contracts

    A reading of the public terms for seven enterprise AI services. Across all seven vendors, the contracts make the customer responsible for AI output. The same contracts describe controls that affect that output: filters, system instructions, safety features, retrieval rules, data masking, and classifiers. The clauses that assign responsibility do not mention those controls.

    How Large Organisations Classify AI in Public Governance Documents

    Legacy record

    Inquiry working paper

    Published 26th June 2026

    Governance and classification

    A documentary study of how fifteen large organisations classify AI in their public governance documents.

    The Subtraction Study

    Legacy record

    Inquiry working paper

    Published June 2026

    Deployment and capability reduction

    A controlled test of whether the governance wrapping that makes a model deployable inside an institution removes specific forms of capability while preserving the appearance of intelligence.

    Adoption Without Capability Reporting

    Legacy record

    Inquiry working paper

    Revised working paper, June 2026

    Public reporting and disclosure

    A coding study of how twenty-two major firms publicly describe their AI programmes in prepared management remarks.

    The Awareness Trap

    Legacy record

    Examination

    Published June 2026

    Regulation and human oversight

    An examination of Article 14 and Article 26 of the EU AI Act against the psychological evidence on automation bias.

    Corporate Disclosure Prose Drift Analysis

    Legacy record

    Inquiry working paper

    Published March 2026

    Public reporting and disclosure

    A systematic review of narrative disclosure prose across large US public companies, comparing 2019, 2022, and 2024 filings.