Peter Kahl
Curriculum Vitae
Education, research fields, professional background, publications, and institutional information for due diligence.
Profile
Peter Kahl is an independent scholar and philosopher of AI governance, epistemic systems, and institutional responsibility. His research examines how knowledge, authority, recognition, evaluation, and responsibility are structured in human and artificial systems.
His work is published through Lex et Ratio Ltd and DOI-linked research repositories, with a focus on AI governance, epistemic authority, fiduciary responsibility, delegated discretion, research governance, and the philosophy of knowledge.
Research fields
- AI governance and institutional answerability;
- philosophy of knowledge and epistemic authority;
- epistemic justice and research governance;
- fiduciary theory and epistemic responsibility;
- delegated discretion and decision-system governance;
- recognition systems, metrics, and social mobility;
- philosophy of artificial agency and evaluative control.
Education
- LLM, University of Reading.
Professional background
Kahl’s earlier professional background spans approximately two decades in electronics design engineering, including analogue circuit design, discrete and silicon-level design, design for manufacture, and design for test. That technical background informs his later work on AI systems, institutional responsibility, and evaluative control.
He is associated with Lex et Ratio Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales. Company No. 16641457.
Research frameworks
- Representational Sealing Theory;
- Objective-Layer AI;
- The Answerability Fuse;
- Delegated Discretion;
- Epistemic Clientelism and the Recognition Game;
- Epistemic Humility as Fiduciary Obligation.
Selected publications
- The Answerability Fuse: A Statutory Trigger for Reconstructable Decisions.
- Objective-Layer AI: A Structural Definition of Endogenous Evaluation in Artificial Systems.
- The Inside of Generatedness: Representational Sealing and the Materials of Temporal Order.
- The Duck and the Philosopher: Epistemic Maintenance, Generativity, and Responsibility in Distributed Knowledge Systems.
- Epistemic Humility as Fiduciary Obligation.
Institutional and policy-facing work
Kahl’s research is directed toward academic, policy, regulatory, institutional, and corporate audiences concerned with AI governance, public authority, automated discretion, research governance, and the preservation of answerable judgement.
Contact
Academic collaboration, invited lectures, visiting appointments, research conversations, and selected advisory enquiries may be directed to:
Peter Kahl
Lex et Ratio Ltd
Email: peter.kahl@juris.vc