The construct of calculated inefficiency is developed, defined as the structural property of a hybrid information system in which human interventions in automatable processes are maintained at levels above what pure efficiency optimisation would select, regardless of whether that maintenance was deliberately architecte...
Mohamed El Louadi, Maher Kallel· AI and Ethics· 0 citations
It is argued that machine checking produces verification abundance while leaving adjudication scarce, and proposes a six-category taxonomy of representational mismatch, a disclosure schema for machine-generated mathematical claims, and implications for software, cryptography, and regulated decision systems.
The proposition that agentic artificial intelligence may precipitate a depletion of collective cognitive capital has circulated with unusual velocity in both scholarly and public discourse. The present paper offers a deliberately heterodox reading of the dynamic model advanced by Acemoglu, Kong and Ozdaglar (2026). Rat...
The paper concludes that the model’s value lies in identifying the tragedy of the cognitive commons, a credible negative externality, and sets out a research agenda for measuring effort elasticity and monitoring the commons.
