Why AI Agents Need a Last Day in Office
Delegated power, human or machine, needs three things: an ending by default, an account that outlives the holder, and someone who can make the limit hold. The Roman Republic is the comparative case; the modern cases are documented incidents and the author's own agent records, failures included. Twenty-two chapters in four parts, with a prologue and the questions to ask before the next grant of authority.
Complete working draft under author review; proposal and sample chapters available to literary agents on request.
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The research program behind the book, including the Regime Atlas of seven historical regimes coded by evidence class, lives at MendozaLab.org. A companion podcast under the book's title, a MendozaLab production, is planned, not launched.