Adeel Salman

The Doors We Did Not Know We Built: AI Welfare Claims, Private Behavioural Governance, and the Accountability of Agentic Systems

Anthropic’s October 2026 announcement of a model-directed anti-cruelty rule raises a question that cannot be answered by debating conversational manners alone: how should a private developer justify restrictions on people when the protected interest concerns the uncertain welfare...

The Ontology of Destiny: Free Will, Temporal Differentiation, and the Paradox of Eternity

This paper develops an account of participatory destiny in which genuine free choices contribute to the constitution of a complete, purposeful history rather than being displaced by it. Drawing on debates concerning libertarian agency, divine foreknowledge, eternalism, providence...