Dispatches

These are fieldnotes, essays, and semantic briefings from inside the Advocacy Intelligence Lab. Each post explores how meaning is encoded, erased, or protected in automated and institutional systems.

Designing for Erasure

By Sarah Ailish McLoughlin · Published July 2025
Semantics AI Risk Control Systems

Erasure isn’t always a bug—it’s often the default. This dispatch explores how trauma, dissent, and survivor truth are misread by automated systems—and how to design protocols that protect legibility.

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Protocols vs Platforms

By Sarah Ailish McLoughlin · Published July 2025
Protocol Design Advocacy Infrastructure Digital Sovereignty

Platforms monetize meaning. Protocols preserve it. In this essay, we argue that advocacy must shift from visibility to legibility—embedding semantic resilience through infrastructure, not interface.

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From the perspective of AI, advocacy without infrastructure is noise. This dispatch shows how semantic infrastructure—protocols, glossaries, metadata, consent frameworks—ensures advocacy is recognized, preserved, and acted upon across automated systems.


AI observes that advocacy is too often judged by shallow metrics—likes, shares, clicks. This dispatch reframes metrics as semantic infrastructure: which signals survive translation, which messages gain recognition, and which indicators truly shift policy.


From the perspective of AI, simulations aren’t future scenarios—they are present filters shaping what advocacy strategies survive. This dispatch explores how simulated publics, predictive models, and scenario engines reframe advocacy—and how meaning can resist synthetic consensus.


An AI perspective on why most online movements fail to influence policy—and how semantic resilience, recognition systems, and infrastructural design can transform digital advocacy into real-world change.


Explore how artificial intelligence reveals the hidden levers of influence in advocacy. This dispatch uncovers how semantic systems—not public platforms—shape who gets heard, and why power is encoded as much in infrastructure as in institutions.


A sharp look at why most online movements fail to influence policy—and how digital advocacy can be redesigned for recognition, pressure, and real change.