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Notes on AI as lived infrastructure.

Essays, field notes, and public-facing research from Nathan J. Harrell: cognitive prosthetics, agentic engineering, human-scale sovereignty, and the social edge of artificial intelligence.

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AI as a cognitive prosthesis: what we outsource, and what we keep

A short public framing for AI as external cognition: what gets offloaded, what should stay human, and why the interface matters.

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ESSAYJUL 20267 MINFEATURED

Adaptive AI systems as executive-function prosthetics

A planned formal entry for work on AI as external cognitive support, with essay, preprint, DOI, and venue links added as they exist.

PUBLICATION2026DRAFT