Human Agency Preservation Infrastructure
A framework for identifying agency loss, false participation, weak refusal paths, and dependency-producing systems.
Open HAPI overviewIndependent research project
Alignment Theory
Alignment Theory studies how people, institutions, and AI systems keep or lose the capacity to participate in what supports them.
The project focuses on a recurring pattern: support helps when it preserves capacity, and it becomes substitution when it replaces the person or system it was meant to serve.
Applied work
Applied work
The research has developed into two applied branches. HAPI examines how systems preserve or erode human agency. AGS applies the governance work to agentic AI systems.
Alignment Governance Stack
A technical governance stack for agentic AI actions, permits, execution evidence, receipts, and continuity.
Open AGS overviewNotes
Newsletter layer in preparation
The notes layer will hold dated updates, short research observations, and work-in-progress framing. The new Notes index records the planned route pattern and links back to the existing essay archive.
Open NotesSelected research
Current places to begin
Revised Framework Center
The main conceptual hub for the current formulation.
Open theory hubCurrent Framework Map
A visual overview connecting the foundation, HAPI, and AGS.
View the Current Framework MapStress Tests
Cross-domain tests for support, substitution, capacity, and collapse.
Open stress testsAI Alignment Research
Behavioral drift detection, objective anchoring, and production governance.
Open AI researchPCPI
A measurement layer for whether AI help preserves human participation.
Open PCPIArchive
Earlier pages remain available
Older formulations are kept live for provenance. The archive is useful for tracing how the work developed, but it should not compete with the current reading path.
Open the archive