Research Questions

• What is human agency in an algorithmic world?

• Which decisions should never be delegated without appropriate guarantees and accountable authority?

• When is optimization technically possible but normatively illegitimate?

• Where is human judgment constitutive of the good rather than merely an inefficient way to produce an outcome?

• How can AI augment capability without hollowing out responsibility, expertise, or authorship?

• How do social AI systems change relationships, belief, dependency, and independent judgment?

• When does personalization expand choice, and when does it become manipulation or invisible constraint?

• How will AI reshape work, entrepreneurship, education, and the distribution of economic opportunity?

• What does flourishing mean when systems can optimize measurable proxies for health, productivity, engagement, or preference satisfaction?

• Which rights to privacy, consent, contestability, explanation, pluralism, and exit must remain protected?

• What should remain human—and what can machines do that allows people to become more capable and more free?