Interveil publishes its thinking as working frameworks — moral architecture translated into engineering posture, with named sources and ledgered claims.
A disciplined response to epistemic lock-in — the plural-time research framework at the edge of knowledge. · Dietrick Hardwick, with Claude · 2026
Not a replacement for physics, but a method: making the several notions of time already at work in serious research — relativistic, thermodynamic, evolutionary, psychological, cultural — explicit, graded, and brought into relation rather than left to harden into unnoticed assumptions. Built for the wary scholar: every example carries its evidence class, and the framework grades its own claims. Anchored by a worked example any metrologist will recognize — the Moon’s clock, and why it needs its own time standard.
Chronoaesthesis, the Interveil Engine, and a method for thinking across disciplines without pretending they are the same. · Dietrick Hardwick, with AI collaboration · 2026
The broader methodological statement: type before grade, grade before build, and grade the bridge separately. Candidate correspondences may cross disciplines through explicit translation while evidence, speculation, metaphor, and fiction remain visibly distinct.
Operationalizing Magnifica Humanitas for the Age of Distributed AI Accountability · Dietrick Hardwick · v1.0, May 2026
On 15 May 2026, Pope Leo XIV signed Magnifica Humanitas, the first papal encyclical devoted to artificial intelligence — presented at the Vatican with Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah endorsing its central claim: that AI is now too consequential to be governed solely by the companies building it. Internal corporate ethics is necessary but not sufficient.
The white paper translates the encyclical’s architecture into a deployable governance posture — the Third City: neither Babel (one language, one direction, efficiency over dignity) nor reactive prohibition, but distributed responsibility, subsidiarity, and communion rather than uniformity. It crosswalks the moral charter against the NIST AI RMF, the EU AI Act, and C2PA, and states a hard perimeter on lethal autonomy.
The Third City is not a manifesto. It is an engineering posture for organizations that intend to operate AI at scale, lawfully, durably, and without producing harms that compound faster than they can be remediated.
Full text available to advisory clients and on request. Deployment guidance is keyed to the EU AI Act high-risk enforcement window of August 2026.
On what today’s AI actually is, what it can and cannot do, and the epistemic discipline we build around it. · Dietrick Hardwick, with Claude · 2026
Why we say Authentic, not Artificial: today’s systems are predominantly human-sourced pattern-extractors — not hand-coded reasoners, and not synthetic minds. A fully-cited position paper that grades every claim it makes, and deliberately concedes more to its critics than is customary. The companion to the essay “Authentic, Not Artificial.”
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Cognition beyond the skull, and the one law that keeps extension from becoming extraction. · Dietrick Hardwick, with Claude · 2026
Our definition of exocognition, made rigorous: grounded in the extended-mind and cognitive-offloading literature, honest about the counter-case, and turning our one law — the human remains the author — into a testable design principle. Companion to the Journal essay “Exocognition.”
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Restore the signal; never falsify the record. The forensic discipline under everything we build — provenance by default, graded claims, anchored records, and the human as author — stated as a method others can deploy.