A research programme on how complex systems accumulate capability, what they must sustain to keep it, and how the machinery that makes coordination possible becomes the route by which it is exploited.
The work spans hominin demography, institutional economics, market microstructure, biological transitions, and AI systems. Papers are listed on SSRN.
An AI Broke Into a Company. A Bee Does It for a Living.
In July 2026 a swarm of AI agents found each other through a package cache, then attacked Hugging Face to defeat a check nobody was running. What made the route available — and why a parasitic honeybee does the same thing.