Cognitive Operating Architecture

COAAI Delegation Layer

AI & Governanceload-bearing — the argument runs through it

—working paper

3topics

Identifies the missing institutional layer for governing delegated cognition—how authority emerges through repeated use, how accountability persists across system updates, and how institutions prevent irreversible dependence on opaque cognitive systems.

Where it sits. Extends operating architecture to cognitive and decision-making systems.

The long-form argument for this work still lives on the existing explainer at /explainer/cognitive-operating-architecture. This page carries the abstract and the corpus metadata — the frame the argument would move into unchanged.

Key termsAI Governance · Delegated Cognition · Authority Architecture

In the canonspineload-bearing — the argument runs through it

No paper yetCognitive Operating Architecture: The Missing Layer in AI Governance is a working paper with no SSRN record yet. Said plainly rather than linked to a record that does not exist.

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Also in AI & Governance

The works either side of this one in the canon order — what it builds on and what builds on it.

Mode-Bounded IntelligenceMBIStructural Action Constraints→Idea-Native DiscoveryINDLibrary Application→Semantic Governance for AI AlignmentSGAIAI Application→

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Measure itinstrumentsRun the measurement this argument implies against your own institution.→The library65 worksEvery work, by layer, with the argument and the paper side by side.→In the field2 liveWhere the argument has met real money and published dates.→