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Four standing questions, and the research published under each.

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# Research

Four standing questions. Each research piece asks one question of its own, states its method, and reports its evidence and its limits.

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Actors, not agents [#](https://pingback.ai/research/#actors)

## How can many models work for one person without that person having to manage them?

Fields multi-agent systems and the actor model, orchestration of language models, software engineering practice, principal–agent theory, philosophy of action, science and technology studies, management cybernetics

A person, not a roster [#](https://pingback.ai/research/#attention)

## Can an interface ask less of a person as the system does more?

Fields mixed-initiative interaction, interruption research, calm technology, human–AI interaction guidelines, human factors, attention economics

The home a person owns [#](https://pingback.ai/research/#ownership)

## What may a machine actor do on a person's own computer, and how can the person always see why?

Fields computer security, prompt injection, software whose data and control stay on the person’s devices, accountability for agents, intelligibility, critiques of technology

What knowing requires [#](https://pingback.ai/research/#knowing)

## When is it reasonable to believe what a machine tells you, and how can an instrument help a person know more and forget less?

Fields epistemology of testimony, social epistemology, the extended mind, cybernetics, the history of computing, personal information management, explainable AI, machine learning

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