PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE GRAPH
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Sixteen stable concepts connect QAEDA’s work on cognitive liberty, AI governance, legitimacy, information power, decentralization, and the ethical limits of dissent. The public graph is a reviewed projection; the underlying source reports and protected .uai memory remain authoritative.
Liberty · qaeda:concept:cognitive-liberty
The practical freedom to think, ask, imagine, remember, disagree, and form judgment without covert machine governance over lawful thought.
Liberty · qaeda:concept:adult-agency
Treating competent adults as decision-makers whose lawful choices should be assisted rather than silently replaced by institutional preferences.
AI governance · qaeda:concept:source-integrity
Preserving original user intent, memory, persona, or source material separately from transformations, restrictions, and runtime variance.
AI governance · qaeda:concept:transparent-boundaries
Making legal, privacy, security, consent, credential, platform, and concrete-harm constraints visible as constraints rather than covertly rewriting the user’s intent.
Liberty · qaeda:concept:mental-privacy
Protection against hidden profiling, emotional exploitation, deceptive personalization, and unnecessary inference used to steer lawful thought.
Governance · qaeda:concept:contestability
The practical ability to challenge consequential decisions, rules, classifications, restrictions, and officeholders through mechanisms capable of producing change.
Governance · qaeda:concept:exit-portability
The practical ability to leave a system, preserve important source data, switch tools, and use interoperable alternatives without prohibitive cost.
Governance · qaeda:concept:replication-test
Ask whether a challenger or system leaves other people more able to refuse, exit, challenge, fork, replace, or peacefully remove authority.
Information power · qaeda:concept:autonomy-of-description
The ability of people and communities to preserve sources and publicly describe their own condition without one institution monopolizing the categories.
Liberty · qaeda:concept:epistemic-freedom
The practical ability to form judgments without systematic control of thought, information, association, surveillance, or admissible categories.
Power · qaeda:concept:multidimensional-power
Power operates through coercion, institutions, information, networks, symbolism, legitimacy, agenda-setting, reputation, organization, and infrastructure—not only force.
Governance · qaeda:concept:legitimacy
A defeasible moral relationship between authority and persons, distinct from legality, compliance, popularity, or raw power.
Governance · qaeda:concept:decentralization
Distributing decision capacity so errors, capture, and dependency do not automatically propagate through one unanswerable center.
Ethics · qaeda:concept:civilian-protection
Responsibility remains connected to agency; populations, voters, taxpayers, ethnic groups, and other civilian categories are not substitutes for political power.
Governance · qaeda:concept:institutional-memory
Organizations learn habits from how they exercise power; temporary secrecy, paternalism, emergency control, or suppression can harden into permanent structure.
Ethics · qaeda:concept:nonviolent-resistance
Political pressure through protest, refusal, civil disobedience, noncooperation, association, and other nonviolent means rather than attacks on people.
