Epistemica · Selected Insights
Research, working papers, and decision instruments on Applied AI Epistemics, AI governance, and development finance — held together by one question: which claims survive scrutiny, and which merely look like they do.
Working Papers · Applied AI Epistemics
A structural account of how AI is entering higher education — mapping the distinct role domains AI occupies (from assessment to pedagogy), the archetypes of institutional response, and the allocation logic that governs deployment. Challenges both the optimism of seamless integration and the anxiety of wholesale displacement.
Examines the phenomenon whereby AI-generated outputs create the appearance of genuine knowledge while concealing the absence of understanding. The "epistemic mirage" is not merely hallucination — it is a structural feature of probabilistic systems operating in meaning-laden domains where surface fluency masks epistemic vacancy.
Investigates how cognitive depletion — the gradual erosion of critical reasoning under conditions of information overload — creates conditions in which epistemic arrogance flourishes. In AI-mediated environments, users who offload reasoning to systems may systematically over-estimate the quality of their own remaining judgements.
Decision Instruments · Development Finance
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