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      "title": "Defaulting to One Agent Is Not Conservative. It Defends the Cost of Meaning.",
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      "key_claim": "AI can accelerate drafting and revision, but it cannot assume the author's final responsibility for submission.",
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      "summary": "A conjecture on meta-recursion and the point at which abstraction loses its bridge to actionable reality.",
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      "summary": "An interactive five-level maturity model for operational control, issue diagnosis, reflective governance, and institutional self-awareness.",
      "key_claim": "AI governance maturity depends not only on controls, but also on an organization's ability to examine the assumptions and limits of its own governance system.",
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      "summary": "An interactive diagnostic map connecting Issue Space, Gartner's 2026 agentic AI framing, and the Shengxing Conjecture to practical action.",
      "key_claim": "Agentic AI problems should be diagnosed across domain, managerial, technical, relational, organizational-intelligence, and ethical dimensions before action is selected.",
      "author": "Shengxing Yang"
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      "title": "UiPath: Legacy-System Constraints, the Agentic AI Transition, and Implications for Digital Modernization",
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