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sankarshan @sankarshan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’ve been reading Wikimedia’s new API Strategy. I agree with much of the diagnosis: fragmented APIs, inconsistent interfaces and difficult discovery need fixing. My concern is elsewhere - API modernization can also quietly become governance centralization.

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sankarshan @sankarshan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Jake Orlowitz’s account of Jimmy Wales exposes a hidden layer of Wikipedia governance: authority can sit not only in institutions, but in the person trusted to absorb conflict and translate between centre and edge. medium.com/regarding-wi...

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The Art of Being Jimmy Wales

One talk page, July to August 2026

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sankarshan @sankarshan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What happens when proof of personhood becomes infrastructure? At what point does proving that you are a person become proving that you are sufficiently embedded in recognised institutions?

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sankarshan @sankarshan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Digital Public Infrastructure was built to answer one question: who is acting? Agentic systems raise a harder one: under whose authority does the action happen? Identity and consent assume the person authenticating is the person deciding, in the same moment. Agents break that.

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 04/08/2026

By me at this.weekinsecurity.com: A major online ads company that claims to serve 1.5 billion ads a day was hacked and began serving malware designed to steal a person's crypto. This is the latest perfect example why you should use an ad-blocker.

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Online advertising giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are necessary

The hacked digital advertiser was caught serving malicious ads that allowed hackers to steal a victim's cryptocurrency.

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sankarshan @sankarshan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A behavioural model can make a good guess about what you usually want. It should not be able to overrule what you have actually instructed. Prediction is useful. It is not authority. thetrustgraph.substack.com/p/agents-tha...

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Agents That Outvote Their Principals

How behavioural inference quietly displaces expressed intent as the authoritative signal in delegated systems

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sankarshan @sankarshan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Accountable institutions can still make bad decisions. Not because authority failed, but because the knowledge the decision needed never reached the people making it. The edge knows first. open.substack.com/pub/thetrust...

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The Edge Knows First

What Accountable Execution Governance Cannot Fix

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sankarshan @sankarshan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

“Governing Delegation, Not Decisions” argues AI governance keeps answering the wrong question. It asks: was this decision legitimate? That question assumes a decision that holds still long enough to review. Agentic systems don’t produce anything that holds still.

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sankarshan @sankarshan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Everyone is talking about AI agents and almost everyone is talking about identity. I think the bigger challenge is governance. Not “Who is the agent?” But “Who allowed this agent to act, under what authority, and who remains accountable?”

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sankarshan @sankarshan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

In substack.com/@thetrustgra... and substack.com/@thetrustgra... I look at the challenges in agentic systems which have to deal with the issue of delegation. Especially, multi agent and multi hop flows which surface some interesting capability gaps.

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Acting on Behalf: When the Agent Enters the Market Before the Principal Does

Delegated Authority Is Outrunning the Evidence That Would Make It Accountable

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sankarshan @sankarshan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

diff.wikimedia.org/2026/06/11/w... - this is not just a UX problem. It is a participation infrastructure problem. Wikipedia cannot rely indefinitely on civic goodwill while making the first step into contribution feel hidden, ambiguous, and hostile.

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sankarshan @sankarshan.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

open.substack.com/pub/thetrust... Delegated intelligence is a shift in authority. When agents act, route, decide and delegate, the governance question changes from “what did the model output?” to “who authorised this chain of action, under what constraints, and with what redress?”

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Delegated Intelligence: The Next Compute Paradigm

The Shift: From Predictive Models to Autonomous Agents

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sankarshan @sankarshan.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

DPI@2047 is not really a technology roadmap. It is a state-capacity argument. The core claim is that digital public infrastructure can move India from foundational inclusion toward livelihood-led productivity, market access, and human capability.

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sankarshan @sankarshan.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

open.substack.com/pub/thetrust... Machines making commitments is the real threshold. Once an agent can bind a payment, filing, contract, workflow, or institutional promise, the question is no longer “is it capable?” It is “was it legitimately authorised to create an obligation?”

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When Machines Make Commitments

Autonomy becomes consequential when it binds the future. Commitments are not a feature of agentic systems — they are the threshold at which delegation becomes institutional force.

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sankarshan @sankarshan.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Open knowledge systems are not just facing a licensing problem. They are facing a control problem. Authority is no longer exercised mainly through visible deliberation. It is exercised through infrastructure, access control, execution pathways, and economic leverage.

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sankarshan @sankarshan.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

The relevant question is not whether a data artifact has survived. It is whether the authority that artifact encodes remains valid, exercisable, and contestable in the present moment, at the point where a system is about to act on it. open.substack.com/pub/thetrust...

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The Persistence Trap

Durable systems, drifting authority, and the governance gap we are now engineering into infrastructure

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sankarshan @sankarshan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

open.substack.com/pub/thetrust... Exploring the architecture of modern agentic systems and examining the concept of authority and legitimacy.

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Enforceable Authority Without Legitimate Control

The Infrastructure Gap at the Heart of Agentic Governance

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sankarshan @sankarshan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The Trust Graph essays are not standalone pieces. They map how governance has shifted into infrastructure where identity, evaluation, and execution carry real authority. “Start Here” is the entry point into that system. thetrustgraph.substack.com/p/start-here

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Start Here

The Trust Graph examines a single problem from multiple angles across a cumulative body of work.

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sankarshan @sankarshan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

High-risk systems fail from governance sitting outside execution. Authority lives in identity, evaluation, and execution layers, while revocation and redress do not. That gap produces enforceable decisions without accountable control. thetrustgraph.substack.com/p/governance...