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  • AI and Productive Relations 3: Institutional Design for AI Agents

    Alignment, safety, and interpretability are necessary. AI governance also needs institutional design for ownership, work, compute, and accountability.

    10 min read   ·   May 19, 2026

    2026   ·   ai-productive-relations   alignment   constitutional-ai   interpretability   ai-safety   governance   ·   Society   Governance

  • AI and Productive Relations 2: From Tool to Production Subject

    What changes when AI systems act as persistent, tool-using participants inside firms, markets, and institutions?

    9 min read   ·   May 18, 2026

    2026   ·   ai-productive-relations   production-subjects   workplace-governance   legal-identity   information-integrity   ·   Society   Governance

  • AI and Productive Relations 1: Intelligence as Infrastructure

    AI looks like software at the interface. At scale, it depends on compute, energy, chips, labor, and institutions.

    10 min read   ·   May 17, 2026

    2026   ·   ai-productive-relations   compute   labor   governance   infrastructure   ·   Society   Governance

  • Understanding Language Models 2: Stable Features and Identifiable Causal Structure

    A stable feature basis is the prerequisite for interpretable causal structure: first demand run-to-run consistency, then recover temporal and instantaneous relations.

    11 min read   ·   April 02, 2026

    2026   ·   language-model   mechanistic-interpretability   causal-representation-learning   sparse-autoencoder   identifiability   ·   LLM   MI   CRL

  • Understanding Language Models 1: Mechanistic Interpretability Meets Causal Representation Learning

    Mechanistic interpretability and causal representation learning study the same object, computation, but from complementary angles: circuits vs variables.

    9 min read   ·   February 26, 2026

    2026   ·   language-model   mechanistic-interpretability   causal-representation-learning   ·   LLM   MI   CRL

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