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Alex Chengyu Li

Independent

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (12)

1.

AEGIS: A Portable Evidence-Bundle Protocol for Offline Verification of AI-Agent Execution Traces

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 23 Mar 2026 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2026
Alex Chengyu Li
Independent
Downloads 72 (1,074,648)

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AI governance, autonomous agents, behavioral audit trail, AI agent accountability, provenance, hash chain, digital signatures, agent governance

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Manufactured Recognition: A Theoretical Framework for the Ethics of AI Companions

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 12 May 2026 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2026
Alex Chengyu Li
Independent
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AI Ethics, Recognition Theory, Honneth, Brandom, Pippin, Ikäheimo, Manufactured Recognition, Capacity Rei Cation, Behavioral-Twin Test

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Regulatory Gap: Why Model Risk Management Is Structurally Ill-Suited to Govern AI-Driven Code Transformation

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 20 Mar 2026 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2026
Alex Chengyu Li
Independent
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SR 11-7, OCC 2011-12, AI code transformation, COBOL modernization, governance framework, TPRM, transformation risk, functional equivalence

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What the Karpowicz Theorem Does Not Prove: A Three-Resource Theory of the LLM Einstein Test

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 14 May 2026 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2026
Alex Chengyu Li
Independent
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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Science, Scientific Discovery, Kolmogorov Complexity, Undecidability, Verification Asymmetry, Large Language Models

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Generation–Verification Asymmetry: Apprenticeship-Pipeline Thresholds and the Reproduction of Verification Capacity under AI Substitution

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 15 May 2026 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2026
Alex Chengyu Li
Independent
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articial intelligence, tacit knowledge, verication, apprenticeship, human capital, phase transition, pipeline collapse, credentialing JEL Classication: J24

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Access, Not Ownership: An Orthogonality Theorem for AI Governance Regimes

Number of pages: 89 Posted: 21 May 2026 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2026
Alex Chengyu Li
Independent
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Foundation Models, AI Governance, Mixed Oligopoly, Natural Monopoly, Certification Intermediaries, Structural Separation, Access Regulation

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Who Proves What When AI Decides? The Accountability Gap in Global Grain Supply Chain Decisions

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 23 Mar 2026
Lin Li and Alex Chengyu Li
Archer Daniels Midland Company and Independent
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AI accountability, supply chain governance, grain trade, algorithmic decision-making, regulatory gap, human-in-the-loop

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Influence Capacity Beyond GDP: An Axiomatic Three-Axis Theory

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 05 May 2026 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2026
Alex Chengyu Li
Independent
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national power, economic complexity, state capacity, production networks, useful work, hegemonic transition, representation theorem JEL Classication: F02

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Claim-Level Verification for AI-Assisted Mathematics: A Kernel-Closed Hamilton Classification and a Mixed-Boundary Rado Study

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 26 Jun 2026 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2026
Alex Chengyu Li
Independent
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AI-Assisted Mathematics, Proof Engineering, Generation-verification Asymmetry, SAT Solving, Formal Verification, Lean, Mathlib, Kernel-only Formalization, Rado Numbers, Computer-assisted Proof, Reproducibility, Audit Artifacts, Verification Infrastructure, Satisfiability, Proof Assistants, Claim-Level Verification, Verification Profiles, Closure Profiles, Hamilton Cycles, Hamilton Paths, Noncrossing Partitions, Kernel-Closed Verification, Mixed-Boundary Verification

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Asymmetric Eliminativism: When LLM Consciousness Debates Reverse-Define Their Targets

Number of pages: 74 Posted: 13 May 2026 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2026
Alex Chengyu Li
Independent
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Eliminative Materialism, Concept Eliminativism, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, Large Language Models, AI Governance, Folk Psychology, Impossibility Result, Distributed Cognition, AI Testimony

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Information Value Under Endogenous Feasibility

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 20 Apr 2026 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2026
Alex Chengyu Li
Independent
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information value, Blackwell ordering, impossibility theorem, irreversibility, percolation, phase transition, JEL: D81, JEL: D83, JEL: C65

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On Rado Numbers for x + by = bz: The b^k Pattern and a Threshold Conjecture

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 03 Jun 2026 Last Revised: 05 Jun 2026
Alex Chengyu Li
Independent
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Rado Numbers, Ramsey Theory, SAT Solving, Partition Regularity, Badic Valuation