Research & notes · 2024-2026

Publications

Essays, notes and research on cognitive preservation, sovereignty, truth and the infrastructure of trust — written before, during and since the building of (Urs).

Upcoming

upcomingWhy three verdicts, not twoThe NUANCED doctrine — what the binary misses
upcomingAI Act: high-risk deferred, the direction confirmedDigital Omnibus regulatory note

2026

Aug. 2026Industrialising serendipityWhy prediction alone will not produce the next discoveries Aug. 2026Identity is not mandateAgent governance: mandate, grounding, constancy Jul. 2026The prompt that makes AI honest does not existWhy an instruction cannot fix a calibration failure Jul. 2026What we know but cannot tellTacit knowledge, and the only use of AI that doesn't impoverish us Jul. 2026Veracity is not a voteFreshness, temporality, context — one against ten thousand can be true Jun. 2026Replayable or inadmissibleDeterminism, the condition of the audit Jun. 2026Why models inventHallucination as a structural property — and how to contain it May 2026The HTTPS of AIThe 1995 padlock, the 2026 trust layer Apr. 2026What 600 million publications changeOpen science, from the forecourt to the decision Mar. 2026What benchmarking will never tell youImported value, cultivated value — and what the market never reveals 2026The day the model confessedExtraction vs preservation, in two lines 2026From extraction to preservationThe founding essay — from the thesis (HAL · SSRN)

2025

Dec. 2025The executive's dilemma — and its third wayThe Sovereignty × Preservation quadrant — revised 2026 Nov. 2025The architecture of the intersticeTo the polymaths, the translators — building where knowledge meets Feb. 2025Slop: the age of noise and the end of knowledge?The signature essay — revised 2026 2025The next infrastructure layer is cognitiveAfter compute, storage, network — revised 2026 2025Why knowledge management failedLibraries of results, never of reasonings — revised 2026

2024

2024Cognitive sovereignty: a definitionThe three sovereignties — and the fourth · postscript June 2026 2024The autophagous cycleModel collapse and synthetic data — revised 2026 2024The mentorWhat leaves when an expert goes — origins

Founding thesis — « From Cognitive Extraction to Preservation » (Nov. 2025). Full text, open access: HAL → · SSRN →