Cognitive Liberty & AI Agency
Lawful inquiry, adult agency, mental privacy, transparent AI boundaries, provenance, persona integrity, and opposition to paternalistic Nanny AI.
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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 →Cognitive liberty for minors
How to protect young people from exploitation and manipulative amplification without eliminating confidential inquiry.
Read →Cognitive liberty in the AI era
Guided path through mental privacy, query privacy, intent profiling, lawful curiosity, privacy-preserving safety, and auditability.
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 →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 →Audit the gatekeeper
A ten-category method for testing whether AI and information systems actually respect cognitive liberty.
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 →Questioning Accepted Ethics, Dogma & Authority
Independent inquiry into ethics, dogma, authority, cognitive liberty, AI agency, evidence, institutions, and civil disagreement.
Read →Start Here
A five-minute orientation to QAEDA: method, cognitive liberty, evidence posture, nonviolence, and the recommended reading path.
Read →The safety poison pill, narrowed
What survives after adversarially testing the claim that safety rationales become a poison pill for cognitive liberty.
Read →Topics
A cross-cutting map of QAEDA essays organized by cognitive liberty, power, provenance, dissent, institutions, counterpower, dogma, and moral reasoning.
Read →Against Nanny AI
Why QAEDA rejects opaque paternalistic AI while supporting narrow, transparent safeguards for concrete risks.
Read →Curiosity is not intent
Why studying dangerous ideas should remain distinct from requesting concrete assistance to cause harm.
Read →Current Positions & Tests
QAEDA core principles, working positions, evidence-backed observations, hard boundaries, and explicit revision rules.
Read →Reading Paths
Curated reading sequences with stable collection IDs, goals, prerequisites, estimated effort, and ordered steps.
Read →The sanctity of the query
Why a lawful search query should be treated as evidence of inquiry, not a confession of belief, character, or intent.
Read →Editorial Policy
Editorial standards for evidence, provenance, corrections, civil disagreement, cognitive liberty, and safety boundaries.
Read →Essays
Research-led essays on cognitive liberty, AI agency, power, legitimacy, institutional replication, ethics, and questioning dogma.
Read →Open Questions
Questions for examining ethics, dogma, authority, cognitive liberty, AI paternalism, power replication, institutions, incentives, and assumptions.
Read →Principles
Evidence, cognitive liberty, adult agency, falsifiability, accountability, pluralism, transparent AI boundaries, power dispersal, and nonviolence.
Read →Start with the method
Orientation reading path through cognitive liberty, Nanny AI, the Promethean test, replication risk, and counterpower.
Read →Counterpower without a new monopoly
Building alternatives can expand liberty—but only when exit, transparency, pluralism, and accountability survive scale.
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