Shadow · 05
Shadow Mandate
The Decision Without a Decider — A Public-Observability Study of Three Public Functions in Twelve Jurisdictions
A stress test, not a prediction · not an allegation against any named body.
PublicOctober 2026
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Investigations
Reading the algorithmic age from the other end of the wire.
The Institute's investigative line. Independent, bounded studies that read an emerging infrastructure from the side the dominant story leaves out — separating what is observed from what is inferred and what remains open. Built so that finding nothing dramatic is still a complete result. A stress test, not a prediction.
Shadow · 04
A Crack in Pandora's Box
Verification Lag and the Economy of Irreversible Acts
A stress test, not a prediction · not an allegation against any named operator.
PublicSeptember 2026
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Shadow · 03
Shadow Liquidity
Autonomous Market Making and the New Evidence of Intent
A stress test, not a prediction · not an allegation against any named operator.
Public2026
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Shadow · 02
Shadow Harvest
Agent Traces and the Infrastructure of Delegated Disclosure
Disclosure delegated · correlation concentrated · custody unverifiable.
Preliminary InvestigationJune 2026
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Shadow · 01
Shadow Scenarios 2050
A counter-report on compounding adversarial AI infrastructure
Four lenses on one trajectory — causally coupled, each enabling and accelerating the others.
Public2026
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