Intellectual Demand LaboratoryResearch program 04 · AS
Living with AI Agents
Delegation, trust, memory, commerce, governance, and interfaces in societies populated by persistent AI agents.
IDL-AS-001 · Emerging
The agentic household is a domestic institution in which software agents receive bounded mandates across people, accounts, devices, vendors, and shared resources; its central requirement is a legible authority path from principal through action to consequence.
IDL-AS-004 · Emerging
A personal AI constitution is a user-legible governing compact that allocates authority among the person, agent, provider, and affected counterparties across time. It makes the existing government of the relationship inspectable by defining identity, memory boundaries, permissible action, loyalty obligations, contest rights, remedies, portability, and amendment before defaults and commercial incentives silently decide them.
IDL-AS-002 · Emerging
The Delegation Layer identifies a developing system whose technical, cultural, or institutional components become more legible when studied as a connected whole rather than as isolated trends.
IDL-AS-003 · Emerging
Machine-Mediated Reputation identifies a developing system whose technical, cultural, or institutional components become more legible when studied as a connected whole rather than as isolated trends.
IDL-AS-005 · Emerging
Agent-to-Agent Commerce identifies a developing system whose technical, cultural, or institutional components become more legible when studied as a connected whole rather than as isolated trends.
IDL-AS-006 · Emerging
Synthetic Bureaucracy identifies a developing system whose technical, cultural, or institutional components become more legible when studied as a connected whole rather than as isolated trends.
IDL-AS-007 · Emerging
The Memory Sovereignty Problem identifies a developing system whose technical, cultural, or institutional components become more legible when studied as a connected whole rather than as isolated trends.
IDL-AS-008 · Emerging
AI Guardianship identifies a developing system whose technical, cultural, or institutional components become more legible when studied as a connected whole rather than as isolated trends.
IDL-AS-009 · Emerging
The Post-App Interface identifies a developing system whose technical, cultural, or institutional components become more legible when studied as a connected whole rather than as isolated trends.
IDL-AS-010 · Emerging
Artificial Counterparties identifies a developing system whose technical, cultural, or institutional components become more legible when studied as a connected whole rather than as isolated trends.