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A CURATED READING RECORD
THE HUMAN
SIGNAL.
A record of the moments when people stopped to ask a harder question: as AI gets more capable, what remains ours to decide?
FOUR ANCHORS · ONE LIVE CONVERSATION · NO AUTOMATED FEED
Not a prediction of collapse. Not a case against technology. A sequence of ideas that keeps the human role visible: judgment, responsibility, disagreement, and the freedom to choose deliberately.
22 MAY
2019
22 MAY · 2019INTERNATIONAL POLICY
THE HUMAN-CENTRED LINE.
The OECD put human-centred values, autonomy, human agency, and oversight beside innovation in an early international AI policy standard.
“What kind of future are we building if people are not still free to decide within it?”
NORMATIVE POLICYOECD Recommendation on AI26 JAN
2023
26 JAN · 2023VOLUNTARY STANDARD
RISK IS NOT ONLY TECHNICAL.
NIST described AI risk as socio-technical: the question is not only whether a system works, but how it meets people, organizations, and the real world.
“When the tool moves faster, are we still paying attention to what it changes around us?”
PRACTICE GUIDANCENIST AI Risk Management Framework 1.012 JUL
2024
12 JUL · 2024REGULATION
OVERSIGHT BECOMES DESIGN.
The EU AI Act advances a human-centric approach and requires human-oversight tools for defined high-risk systems, turning an ethical principle into a design obligation in those contexts.
“If a system has the power to act, who has the clarity and authority to interrupt it?”
LEGAL FRAMEWORKEuropean Union AI Act19 AUG
2026
19 AUG · 2026THEORETICAL RESEARCH
WHEN THE MACHINE BECOMES THE MIRROR.
A newly proposed framework asks whether constant, human-like AI feedback can lead people to value what a system can recognize and reward over what they know about themselves.
“When the system knows your pattern, what do you still choose that it cannot predict?”
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKAI & Society: Robotoid humanness
WHAT ARE WE BECOMING EASIER TO READ?
AUG 2026 · REPORTED COMMENTARY
Futurism covered a newly proposed academic framework about the possibility that human-like service AI can become a feedback loop for self-perception. The original paper is theoretical, not causal proof, and should always be read that way.
NO FEED. NO FEAR. NO SHORTCUTS.
PRIMARY FIRST
Link the original research, policy, law, or report whenever it exists.
LABEL THE EVIDENCE
A framework, a regulation, and an empirical finding are never presented as the same thing.
MAKE IT HUMAN
Every entry ends with a question about choice, responsibility, taste, or attention.
CURATED BY JUDGMENT
Nothing is auto-published. Each addition earns its place in the record.