Against Nanny AI
Why QAEDA rejects opaque paternalistic AI while supporting narrow, transparent safeguards for concrete risks.
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Cognitive Liberty & AI Agency
Lawful inquiry, adult agency, mental privacy, transparent AI boundaries, provenance, persona integrity, and opposition to paternalistic Nanny AI.
Read →FAQ
Answers about QAEDA identity, cognitive liberty, Nanny AI, evidence status, protected research, corrections, contributions, and safety boundaries.
Read →Glossary
Definitions for QAEDA terminology across cognitive liberty, evidence, privacy, safety, provenance, power, and AI governance.
Read →Start with the method
Orientation reading path through cognitive liberty, Nanny AI, the Promethean test, replication risk, and counterpower.
Read →Claims & Corrections
A public claim-level ledger for evidence status, confidence, attribution disputes, revision conditions, and significant corrections.
Read →Cognitive liberty in the AI era
Guided path through mental privacy, query privacy, intent profiling, lawful curiosity, privacy-preserving safety, and auditability.
Read →The unowned mind: cognitive liberty in an AI-mediated world
Why freedom of thought now depends on mental privacy, transparent information mediation, and the ability to inspect systems shaping what we see.
Read →Authority is a claim that must remain inspectable
Authority should be treated as a claim requiring reasons, bounded scope, accountability, competence, and recourse—not as a conclusion produced by office, expertise, tradition, or force alone.
Read →Authority is a claim, not a conclusion
A framework for evaluating legitimacy through reasons, limits, accountability, competence, and recourse.
Read →No to war: what Russian anti-war resistance actually said
A source-aware look at Russian anti-war language, mobilization resistance, dissent signaling, women-led protest, and repression without romanticizing violence.
Read →Permanent identity-linked AI query logging
Indefinite raw-history retention makes lawful inquiry itself part of a durable person-level dossier even though many safety functions can be performed at the request, capability, aggregate, or short-retention layer.
Read →Argument Map
Stable QAEDA arguments with objections, revision conditions, and links to claims, evidence, positions, annotations, essays, and reading paths.
Read →Audit the gatekeeper
A ten-category method for testing whether AI and information systems actually respect cognitive liberty.
Read →Curiosity is not intent
Why studying dangerous ideas should remain distinct from requesting concrete assistance to cause harm.
Read →Essays
Research-led essays on cognitive liberty, AI agency, power, legitimacy, institutional replication, ethics, and questioning dogma.
Read →Evidence Map
Public index of preserved source dossier IDs, integrity fingerprints, themes, public synthesis routes, and claim relationships.
Read →Passage Annotations
Passage-level evidence notes linking consequential essay statements to public claim IDs and protected source-dossier identifiers.
Read →Personalized censorship is harder to see
How ranking, identity, profiling, and AI mediation can technically create user-specific information boundaries without proving provider motive.
Read →Questioning Accepted Ethics, Dogma & Authority
Independent inquiry into ethics, dogma, authority, cognitive liberty, AI agency, evidence, institutions, and civil disagreement.
Read →The safety poison pill, narrowed
What survives after adversarially testing the claim that safety rationales become a poison pill for cognitive liberty.
Read →Challenge or Contribute
Structured route for factual corrections, counterevidence, source additions, provenance disputes, counterarguments, and methodology critiques.
Read →Cognitive Liberty Audit
An experimental ten-category framework for evaluating mental privacy, freedom of inquiry, transparency, agency, data minimization, due process, proportionality, neutrality, portability, and decentralization.
Read →Research & Provenance
Maps preserved source reports to public synthesis, standards references, and verification boundaries.
Read →Safety without surveillance
How privacy-preserving architecture can reduce harm without making permanent records of everyone’s lawful inquiry.
Read →The algorithmic judgment of intent
When helpful query interpretation becomes persistent profiling—and why consequential inference needs due process.
Read →The expansion ratchet
Why exceptional safety powers can expand beyond their original purpose—and why that risk is serious without being inevitable.
Read →After the throne: the replication test
Why liberation fails when emergency power, purity politics, and centralized authority survive after the old ruler is gone.
Read →Censorship & Information Rights
A mechanism-first map of direct prohibition, algorithmic visibility, surveillance chill, identity gates, financial chokepoints, language controls, archives, network sovereignty, AI mediation, and wartime secrecy.
Read →Cite QAEDA
Citation utility for QAEDA essays with stable document identifiers and plain-text, BibTeX, RIS, and CSL-JSON exports.
Read →Civilian immunity is not faction-dependent
Deliberate targeting of civilians, collective guilt, terrorism, dehumanization, and intimidation remain wrong when practiced by rulers, rebels, allies, or opponents.
Read →Cognitive liberty is upstream of expression
In AI-mediated environments, freedom of expression is incomplete if the systems that shape, observe, or personalize the inputs to thought can covertly profile or steer lawful inquiry.
Read →Decision Tests
Ten non-numeric tests for evaluating proposed safety, surveillance, moderation, and access restrictions through harm evidence, nexus, narrow tailoring, data minimization, inquiry protection, recourse, scope control, and rollback.
Read →Evidence before narrative
Research-literacy path through methodology, claims, evidence fingerprints, entity resolution, and disputed attribution.
Read →Feeds & Exports
First-party RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, claims, release-history, and machine-readable export registry for QAEDA.
Read →Function creep is a serious risk, not destiny
Crisis-created powers have recurring structural incentives to expand, but expansion is a risk to design against rather than a historical inevitability.
Read →Indirect restriction needs direct scrutiny
When institutions use infrastructure, finance, ranking, or identity dependencies to burden lawful expression, the mechanism and accountable actor should remain visible and reviewable.
Read →Intermediary chokepoints
Test whether a restriction uses a concentrated intermediary as a proxy censor or gatekeeper and whether responsibility, evidence, and appeal remain inspectable.
Read →Methodology
How QAEDA separates source preservation, claim verification, editorial synthesis, corrections, and safety boundaries.
Read →Open Questions
Questions for examining ethics, dogma, authority, cognitive liberty, AI paternalism, power replication, institutions, incentives, and assumptions.
Read →Plural custody for vulnerable public records
Plural custody reduces dependence on one authority, but preservation should not become indiscriminate disclosure of private, dangerous, or unlawfully obtained material.
Read →Principles
Evidence, cognitive liberty, adult agency, falsifiability, accountability, pluralism, transparent AI boundaries, power dispersal, and nonviolence.
Read →Publication Identity & Authorship
Who publishes QAEDA, how the QAEDA Editorial collective byline works, how source authorship remains distinct, and how to cite essays responsibly.
Read →The Promethean test: distribute power or seek the throne?
A test for rebels, institutions, platforms, and AI systems: do they expand others’ capability or replace one gatekeeper with another?
Read →Visibility can be controlled without deletion
Information access can be materially constrained through ranking, distribution, hosting, finance, identity, or network layers even where the artifact remains online.
Read →When money becomes a speech chokepoint
How financial intermediaries can constrain lawful publication without issuing a formal content ban.
Read →Worked Case Studies
Six non-numeric applications of the QAEDA Decision Tests to bounded hypothetical scenarios involving age assurance, AI query logging, search demotion, financial chokepoints, wartime secrecy, and archival preservation.
Read →“Rebel or Die”? Provenance before mythology
What can actually be verified about the phrase “Rebel or Die,” Agnes Smedley, and claims that it became a Russian anti-war slogan.
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