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The Observer
Independent research on AI evaluation infrastructure and structural systemic risks.
The failure mode this archive describes is not model collapse, not benchmark contamination, not distribution drift. It is a functional shift of the evaluation categories themselves — boundaries persist while what they separate becomes progressively opaque.
Recent papers
May 2026
The Audit Asymmetry Problem
Capacity conditions — bandwidth, semantic reach, self-reference depth — under which substrate-independent audit ceases to be informative.
April 2026
A Category-Level Failure Mode Not Captured by Distribution Metrics
Externality conditions for substrate-independent audit, derived from the 2008 Gaussian copula collapse.