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Research Articles

The Future Evolution of Cognitive Institutions

Throughout history, public institutions have evolved in response to changing social, economic and technological conditions. Yet the accelerating complexity of the twenty-first century is transforming the nature of institutional evolution…

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AI for Business

From Policy Manuals to Broker Answers: The Business Work Behind AI Knowledge Assistance

A customer asks a question that sounds straightforward. Somewhere in the business, the answer exists: in a product document, a servicing guide or a clarification issued after the main manual…

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AI Developments

Who Makes AI Safer? The Social Work Behind a New Map of Safeguards

The public encounter with artificial intelligence rarely begins with an abstract discussion of risk. It begins with a recommendation, a document, a conversation or a decision that someone needs to…

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AI Technology Monitor

Teaching Climate AI with Unlikely Futures: Why Training Scenarios Matter

An AI model can learn from many examples and still be poorly prepared for the question a scientist most wants to ask. The problem is particularly revealing in climate research,…

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Policy Paper

Building Institutional Feedback Loops

Public institutions continuously generate information about how their decisions work in practice. Implementation produces operational signals; frontline staff encounter recurring problems and adaptations; service users experience consequences that may remain…

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Concepts and Fundamentals of Institutional Cognition

Reform Is Not the Same as Institutional Learning

Institutions often respond to failure by reforming themselves. Structures are redesigned, responsibilities are redistributed, procedures are rewritten, new units are created, reporting lines change and technologies are introduced, sometimes through…

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AI Developments

When AI Becomes the Front Door: Measuring Digital Accessibility Through Real Tasks

Imagine a person trying to apply for a service online, using a keyboard and a screen reader. The page offers an AI assistant that can explain the process in everyday…

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