Research

The Feed Loop: How AI-Generated Governance Documents Amplify the Patterns They Were Designed to Suppress

Samantha Maeer, 2026

AI systems copy patterns at higher volume than they follow prohibitions. When governance files are written by AI, they carry stylistic defaults that contaminate the same files containing rules designed to suppress those patterns. The fix is not stronger prohibition. The fix is purging the contamination source.

This paper documents the discovery and formal naming of a previously undescribed AI failure mechanism, identified through live operational use across multiple project case studies.

Preprint published on Zenodo and SSRN.

DOI: https://zenodo.org/records/20474271
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-5439-3645

Further papers in progress. Expected publication July 2026.