Samuel Bourque

Series

Humans Are In Charge

A trilogy on human accountability for AI: who answers for it, how to run it responsibly, and what it should ultimately serve.

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  1. An Ecosystem of the Accountable

    Why stable AI ecosystems require more than distributed value: every agent must act under a named human principal who remains answerable for the outcome.

  2. Response-Ability

    Responsible AI at scale depends on preserving human response-ability through bounded mandates, checkpoints, reversible failures, records, risk, and respect.

  3. Trace the Downline

    AI systems should be judged by tracing their consequences to human footing: whether they strengthen subsistence, health, capability, and flourishing—or degrade them.

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