Author
Sanjeet Kumar
Recent research
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Decision Custody: Who Answers for a Decision After the Machine That Made It Is Gone
If someone challenges an AI-made decision three years from now, could your organisation still show how it was made? For most, the honest answer is no. Models are replaced within a year or two, suppliers change hands, reference data is overwritten — while the decision itself lives...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Governing Agentic AI: In Systems of Public Record — Governance Is the Accelerant
Agentic AI in systems of public record demands a threat model built for autonomous action, not just autonomous output. This paper sets out four governing principles, an autonomy ladder that scopes what an agent may do without human sign-off, and the control-plane architecture tha...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Century-Scale Systems: What Land Registries Teach Us About Data Sovereignty
Most technology is designed for a product lifecycle. A land registry is designed for a civilization lifecycle. This paper draws five lessons on data sovereignty from century-scale systems: sovereignty is a property of the record rather than the data centre; every dependency is a...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Tokenized Title: Five Governance Questions Every On-Chain Land Registry Must Answer
Dubai has put property title on-chain at scale: tokenized deeds, a regulated secondary market, and what the Dubai Land Department describes as the first Property Token Ownership Certificate. This paper sets out five governance questions every on-chain land registry must be able t...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
The Cold Standard — A Fixed Reference for a Record That Won't Stop Moving
As AI systems come to write, store, retrieve, summarise and interpret institutional records, every available check on a record is performed by tools of the same class as the thing being checked. A record whose authenticity rests on institutional assertion alone is a fiat record —...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
The Cold Standard — A Fixed Reference for a Record That Won't Stop Moving
As AI systems come to write, store, retrieve, summarise and interpret institutional records, every available check on a record is performed by tools of the same class as the thing being checked. A record whose authenticity rests on institutional assertion alone is a fiat record —...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Decision Custody: Who Answers for a Decision After the Machine That Made It Is Gone
If someone challenges an AI-made decision three years from now, could your organisation still show how it was made? For most, the honest answer is no. Models are replaced within a year or two, suppliers change hands, reference data is overwritten — while the decision itself lives...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Decision Custody: Who Answers for a Decision After the Machine That Made It Is Gone
If someone challenges an AI-made decision three years from now, could your organisation still show how it was made? For most, the honest answer is no. Models are replaced within a year or two, suppliers change hands, reference data is overwritten — while the decision itself lives...