When is AI-mediated institutional action ethically warranted? A feasibility-first framework for admissible-state reasoning

Residual governance for responsible embodied AI: authority, contestability, and cognitive sovereignty

This framework extends familiar themes in bounded rationality, active inference and safe reinforcement learning by treating authority, contestability and oversight cost as first-class ethical variables rather than external governance add-ons.

From automation to ethical authority: governing AI-mediated decision-making in global digital trade

Before agentic AI scales in government: the democratic authorization gap

This Perspective introduces the democratic authorization gap, defined as a break or attenuation in the demonstrable chain connecting legally and democratically grounded public authority to actions selected, sequenced, or executed by an AI agent.

Governing Agentic AI in the Administrative State: Human Oversight, Cybersecurity Accountability, and Risk in Autonomous Digital Systems

Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) shifts digital government from systems that generate recommendations toward networked systems that perceive, plan, communicate, invoke tools, initiate actions, and adapt with limited direct supervision. This article examines agentic AI as an intelligent cybersecurity governance prob...

From responsibility gaps to meaningful human control: an ethical and regulatory governance framework for intelligent AI systems

The study demonstrates how MHC can be translated from an ethical principle into governance practice and shows that meaningful control depends not only on human involvement in decisions, but also on defined purposes and boundaries, operational procedures for review and correction, legal safeguards, and institutional cap...

When responsibility cannot arise: algorithmic mediation and the preconditions of moral imputability

This paper argues that moral responsibility can fail under technologically mediated conditions in two structurally connected ways. First, agents may act from motivational states significantly shaped by external formative processes whose influence remains partially opaque to reflective awareness. Second, institutions ma...