Research agenda
Dependence and choice
Compare what changes when a team uses a hosted model, an open-weight model or a mixed workflow. Record access, operating cost, language performance and maintenance burden.
Industry · Geopolitics
Global capability.
Local consequences.
Who can develop, access and direct AI matters. My political-science background connects these questions to institutions, public capacity and the decisions organisations can actually carry out.
Track the forces.
Study the constraints.
MEKreflect follows public research on model development, compute access, openness and adoption. Our contribution is to examine how these conditions affect the design of a working process, especially in institutions and smaller markets.
Research questions include dependence on external providers, language coverage, access to infrastructure and the ability to maintain local expertise. These are questions for evidence and comparison, not forecasts inferred from a small simulation.
Epoch AI geopolitics researchResearch agenda
Institutions and decision rights
Study how approvals, records, procurement requirements and responsibility affect what an AI worker may do.
Research agenda
Cross-border capability
Examine whether reusable procedures transfer across countries and languages without silently importing incompatible assumptions.