Martin Lepage · PhD · Governance Analyst
A corpus
with a spine.
PHAROS is the paper-series operating system behind institutional analysis, AI governance, and public writing that holds under scrutiny.
Maintained 2026-08-01 · A PHAROS record connected to martin.govern-ai.ca
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One method, wider public work.
PHAROS sits inside a larger record of governance practice, publications, writing, talks, and autodidact app development.
The through-line
Four idioms, one hinge.
The series does not argue one claim in a single vocabulary. It develops the same pressure through four idioms, moving from charge and legitimacy to fluency, recursion, and legibility.
The unresolved governing claim
“The crisis of AI authorship and the crisis of ritual legitimacy are the same crisis: whether efficacy must be traceable to a human source to count.”
Series Spine · Section 1 · pending author confirmation
The six-stage order
Read it as formation.
Each stage supplies a condition the next stage cannot simply assume.
The working order
The archive, in sequence.
Search the works by title, form, or state. Select a row to inspect its role in the method.
The production system
Seventeen nodes. Five gates.
The paper is not generated in one pass. It is carried through evidence formation, deconstruction, drafting, and audit.
Current attention
Point the corpus at its own vault.
The highest-value next move is already available in the archive: 72 annotated reference notes that can close gaps around Métraux, Zwissler, Schüll, and Barocas and Selbst without inventing a new research path.
Control layer
The documents that keep the series honest.
These are the files to load before a paper moves. Open one to see what it governs.