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Legal research on human autonomy, artificial intelligence and civil liability — across the layers that shape perception before choice.
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Authorial trilogyAutonomy · Vulnerability · Sovereignty
02Books
Books that turn research into legal instruments.
The editorial project follows a single commitment: understanding how technological environments reorganize freedom, vulnerability and power — and translating that diagnosis into categories the law can use.
Editorial identity
Books 01 and 02 are published by Editora Dialética. Independent editions, beginning with Book 03, use the GENOVA authorial seal.
JANDISLEI ANTONIO GENOVA · 2026Book 01 · new release
Autonomia Decisória na Era da IA
Formation of will, structural cognitive influence and legal responsibility in algorithmic environments
If the decision remains human, but the environment preceding it has been selected, ordered and personalized by algorithmic systems, where does legal responsibility begin? The book proposes the category of structural cognitive influence and offers criteria for contracts, consumer relations, health, work, justice and public administration.
- Format
- Print + e-book
- Print ISBN
- 978-65-288-0467-2
- Core concept
- Structural cognitive influence
For lawyers, researchers, managers and regulators.
Book 02 · in editorial preparation
The Monetization of Vulnerability
Digital Platforms, Addiction, Hate and Civil Liability in the Algorithmic Age
The book examines how platforms convert human fragility, attention, compulsion and conflict into economic value. The issue is not only harmful content, but a business model that learns from vulnerability, amplifies it and turns it into revenue.
Expected availability in bookstores during September 2026.
- Format
- Print + e-book
- Print ISBN
- 978-65-288-1381-0
- Digital ISBN
- 978-65-288-1380-3
Book 03 · independent edition in development
Manuscript in development for an independent edition; the schedule and final version remain subject to authorial review.Enlarge the cover
Captured Sovereignty
Big Tech, Cognitive Sovereignty and Private Power in the Global Digital Order
Ongoing research on concentrated power, dependence on private infrastructures, cognitive sovereignty and the democratic limits of algorithmic mediation.
Manuscript in development for an independent edition; the schedule and final version remain subject to authorial review.Enlarge the cover03Research
One intellectual project: making visible what happens before the decision.
The research connects Civil Law, bioethics, AI governance and decision theory to examine how systems organize the cognitive field in which people and institutions understand, choose and act.
Structural cognitive influence
How digital architectures reorganize exposure, attention, comparison and trust without formally eliminating freedom of choice.
Selective information architecture
The legal effects of selecting, ranking and hiding information before a decision is expressed.
Civil liability by design
Standards of duty, evidence and attribution when the environment itself contributes to harm or to degraded autonomy.
Cognitive sovereignty and infrastructure
The power of platforms, clouds and private systems to define the material and informational conditions of collective decision-making.
Digital hypervulnerability
Protecting older adults, children, adolescents and other groups exposed to asymmetries of understanding, access, reversibility and contestation.
Functional superfluity and captured sovereignty
When classifications reduce people to costs, risks or obstacles, and public authority retains formal competence while losing material control over the decisive infrastructure.
Demonstrable safety and regulatory evidence
How to require proportionate, verifiable evidence from those controlling architecture, data and records without presuming fault, automatically reversing the burden of proof or sanctioning mere uncertainty.
Epistemic autonomy and Perceptual Twins
A causal protocol separating action metadata, command–consequence coupling and adaptive experiment selection, with auditable software and explicit limits: internal audits do not yet confirm or exclude epistemic autonomy.
Asymmetry of preventive capacity
For a defined risk and feature, it compares who holds architectural control, relevant data, analytical capacity, timing, scale and mitigation resources — without turning technical superiority into automatic liability.
04Intellectual architecture
A public map of the categories that organize the research.
Jandislei Antonio Genova's work is presented according to the nature of each contribution: authorial formulations, pre-existing categories legally reconstructed, and original analytical instruments. Every entry links to the works documenting its development.
Featured: 18 foundational entries connected to the books and the most recent contributions. The complete lexicon preserves all 51 documented records.
AOriginal formulations
Authorial concepts and formulations
Categories named, delimited or reconstructed as specific contributions to the research program.
The stated authorship concerns the specific formulation, delimitation or integration documented in the cited books and articles; it does not imply historical authorship of antecedent ideas.
Structural cognitive influence
A form of influence produced by the persistent organization of the informational environment. It shapes exposure, salience, comparison, trust and understanding before a choice is expressed, without formally eliminating the subject's freedom.
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Selective information architecture
A structure that selects, orders, repeats or conceals information and, in doing so, delimits what a person can perceive, consider and compare before deciding.
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Monetization of vulnerability
The conversion of human fragilities — attention, compulsion, loneliness, fear, hate or the need to belong — into exploitable signals, engagement and revenue within digital business models.
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Control of the representational basis
A category identifying the power of an infrastructure to participate in defining categories, ontologies, variables, labels and hypothesis spaces that condition which problems and alternatives can become recognizable, comparable and legitimate.
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Revisability under evidence
The principle that relevant artificial autonomy does not require creation without priors, but the capacity to alter operative categories, relations and hypotheses when interventions and anomalies reveal their failure.
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Task-relative causal-epistemic autonomy
A functional capacity to choose informative actions, discover relevant causal distinctions, revise operative categories, locate faults in the epistemic loop and align investigation or abstention with uncertainty.
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Functional superfluity
A relational condition in which a person or group is represented chiefly as a cost, risk, resource or obstacle to a dominant purpose, and that representation can become a material effect without effective legal-institutional limits.
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Captured sovereignty
A qualified dissociation between legal title and material control: an authority retains formal competence but loses the effective capacity to understand, audit, replace, interrupt or answer for the system.
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Residual regulatory burden of production
A doctrinal category assigning the regulated entity the risk that its technical claim will not be accepted when data, choices or records under its control lack proportionate, verifiable support, without relieving the authority of proving any infringement.
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Asymmetry of preventive capacity
The unequal distribution of the material, informational and decisional means needed to identify, control, mitigate and verify a risk before it materializes or worsens.
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BLegal reconstructions
Theoretical foundations reconstructed in law
Categories that predate this research and receive an original integration, application or reconstruction within it.
The claimed contribution is the specific legal reconstruction — not the historical creation of the terms.
Digital hypervulnerability
An aggravated condition before digital systems in which age-related, cognitive, informational, economic or access factors make it harder to understand, refuse, reverse or contest a decision.
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Demonstrable safety
The verifiable quality of a process through which a provider identifies foreseeable risks, selects proportionate measures, records criteria and alternatives, tests effectiveness, monitors effects and corrects failures throughout the life cycle.
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COperationalization
Proposed methods and instruments
Protocols and matrices devised to make the research hypotheses verifiable, contestable and useful in legal analysis.
These are heuristic and diagnostic instruments; they are not psychometric scales, decision algorithms or empirically validated metrics.
TICE Protocol
A cumulative six-element test — determinable universe, structuring interposition, material capacity, final human competence, institutional alterity and legal relevance — for diagnosing structural cognitive influence without presuming unlawfulness or causation.
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Perceptual Twins Protocol
A family of yoked experiments comparing agents with different relations among action, information and consequence to identify which components support category revision and fault localization.
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Functional Superfluity Threshold — FST/LEF
A qualitative protocol examining dominant purpose, reductive classification, operational capacity, material access and the effectiveness of legal limits, with counterevidence, temporal scope and an anti-double-counting rule.
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Regulatory demonstrability matrix
A nine-dimension instrument separating the positive-law core, interpretive evidentiary forms, technical good practices and regulatory proposals while identifying production, verification, access conditions and possible effects of insufficiency.
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C-D-A-T-M preventive-capacity profile
A dimensional profile preserving architectural control, relevant data, analytical capacity, timing and scale, and means of mitigation and verification as separate axes.
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Experimental Index of Relative Preventive Capacity — ICPRexp
A secondary scalar synthesis of the C-D-A-T-M profile designed to disclose scores, weights, sources, uncertainty and sensitivity without measuring causation or liability.
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05Articles and essays
A living library that broadens the conversation.
Independent academic works, preprints, essays and editorial records form an expanding body of work on law, artificial intelligence, autonomy, vulnerability and sovereignty. Each entry identifies the available format, documentary status, access to the full text and whether peer review has occurred.
01ICE-MATH · scientific collaboration
Structural Cognitive Influence — ICE: a formal research agenda
A public note on the logical formalization of ICE, its scientific limits, and an invitation to qualified third parties for independent mathematical review and future prospective validation.
02Human oversight and algorithmic governance
Who may challenge artificial intelligence?
The article reconstructs protected human divergence, specifies duty-bearers, causation, evidence and remedies, and proposes a qualitative matrix for assessing when oversight is effective and demonstrable.
03Energy, AI and technological sovereignty
Brazil has energy. Who will capture the value it produces?
The essay distinguishes installed infrastructure, value capture and functional sovereignty, proposing five layers to assess which scientific, technological, economic and decision-making capabilities remain in the country.
06About the author
Law, technology and institutional experience within the same research project.
Jandislei Antonio Genova is a lawyer, author, independent legal researcher and health management specialist. His work focuses on changes in Civil Law, bioethics and decision theory under the growing algorithmic mediation of social life.
An Italian-Brazilian author, he develops an original research agenda on decisional autonomy, civil liability and the legal governance of digital information environments — with particular attention to the human and institutional consequences of artificial intelligence.
- Legal practice
- Civil Law
- Health management
- Specialization and institutional experience
- Research
- AI, autonomy and responsibility
- Authorship
- Legal books and articles
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