Disclosure
AI assistance
Some of the work here was produced with help from AI tools. Rather than bury that in a disclaimer, this page collects every such piece in one place and says what the tools actually did.
- Pieces with AI assistance
- 4
- Share of the archive
- 57%
- Policy revised
- 2026-09-15
What the tools are used for
Finding sources and prior literature, checking arithmetic and units in the data I cite, summarising long documents that I then read myself, testing an argument by asking for the strongest objection to it, and line editing for clarity once a draft is finished.
What they are not used for
The thesis of a piece, the choice of evidence, and the judgement about what follows from it are mine. I do not publish text I have not rewritten, and I do not cite a source I have not opened.
Verification
Every factual claim and every citation that originated with a tool is checked against the primary source before publication. Anything I could not verify is either cut or marked in the text as unverified.
Why disclose at all
Because a reader weighing an argument is entitled to know how it was made. The disclosure costs me nothing if the work is sound, and if it is not sound then the reader deserves the warning.
Responsibility does not transfer. Where a tool helped, the argument, the evidence and any error remain mine, and the piece is signed accordingly. This page is linked from the ethics page and from every piece it covers.
Pieces produced with AI assistance
- 01
The Legalities of Privatizing Oxygen
Property, the commons, and the right to breathe
Political economyAI assistedPDF35 min - 02
The Legalities of Dictatorship
How Weimar's own constitution was used to destroy it, 1930 to 1934
HistoryAI assistedPDF37 min - 03
The Legalities of Creating Your Own Country
Statehood, secession and sovereignty under international law
International lawAI assisted40 min - 04
The Legalities of New Money
Regulating blockchain, decentralised finance, and buy now pay later
Financial economicsAI assistedPDF40 min
- The Legalities of Privatizing Oxygen21 September 2026
- Research assistance from an AI model was used to locate the statutes, cases, treaty provisions and contemporary reporting cited here, and to check figures, dates and the wording of the doctrines against their sources. Every source in the bibliography was read before being relied upon. The framing, that the question is really about excludability and therefore about the processed product rather than the ambient resource, and the structure, the selection of precedents and the conclusions are the author's own.
- The Legalities of Dictatorship16 September 2026
- Research assistance from an AI model was used to gather the constitutional texts, statutes, decrees and historical scholarship cited here, and to check dates, vote counts and the wording of the provisions against their sources. Every source in the bibliography was read before being relied upon. The organising argument, that the collapse proceeded largely through lawful procedure rather than around it, and the structure, the selection of episodes and the conclusions are the author's own.
- The Legalities of Creating Your Own Country13 September 2026
- Research assistance from an AI model was used to locate case law, treaty provisions and contemporary reporting, and to check the recognition counts cited throughout. Every source in the bibliography was read in the original before being relied upon, and the argument, the structure, the selection of cases and the conclusions are the author's own.
- The Legalities of New Money12 September 2026
- Research assistance from an AI model was used to gather the regulatory sources, case law and market figures cited here, and to check the enforcement outcomes and dates against reporting. Every source in the bibliography was read before being relied upon. The organising argument, that these are one legal problem rather than three, and the structure, the case selection and the conclusions are the author's own.