# Aaron Vick

> One body of work exploring trust, systems, evidence, coordination, human meaning, and the future relationship between people and intelligent machines.

Website: https://aaronvick.com
Full context for LLMs: https://aaronvick.com/llms-full.txt

## The Throughline

Aaron Vick's work is not a collection of unrelated pursuits. It is a coherent exploration of what happens when human judgment meets machine-mediated systems — and what it takes to keep those systems accountable, meaningful, and humane. Whether building trust infrastructure for autonomous agents, writing about governance under algorithmic pressure, creating conceptual art about the commodification of personhood, or designing legal technology that handles evidence at scale, the underlying question is the same: how do we preserve human agency in systems that increasingly operate beyond human oversight?

## Five Domains of Work

### 1. Trust and Human Systems
Building the protocols and infrastructure that allow trust to function at machine scale. Current focus: ETHYS (trust layer for the agent economy, ERC-8004 compliant identity and verification) and long-form research on the history and future of institutional trust.

### 2. AI, Agents, and Governance
Designing coordination infrastructure for autonomous agents (EchoRift) and researching the structural redesign needed when AI moves from tool to actor. Published work on the Supervisory Coherence Model, algorithmic authority, and contestability in automated decision systems.

### 3. Legal Intelligence and Evidence Systems
30 years pioneering legal technology. Co-created CaseLogistix (first document research product for legal discovery, acquired by Thomson Reuters). CEO of Cicayda (acquired by TCDI). Expert witness for 20+ years in legal technology, AI/ML, and digital forensics.

### 4. Writing and Public Thought
11 published books, 6 academic papers, 280+ archived articles. Research published in Zenodo, SocArXiv, and Figshare. Recent work focuses on trust after thinking machines, the agentic shift in UX, and social capital in digital communities.

### 5. Art, Meaning, and Human Interior Life
Conceptual installations exploring autonomy, economic violence, and the structures we accept as neutral. Living Arcade: on-chain installation where autonomous bots become unwitting performers. Human Stock: multi-part installation on the commodification of personhood.

## Contact

- Website: https://aaronvick.com
- Blog: https://blog.aaronvick.com
- Twitter/X: @aaronvick
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aaronvick
- Farcaster: @aaronv.eth
- Location: Madison, Mississippi

## Site Structure

- / — Homepage with thesis, work map, featured projects, latest writing
- /about — Biography, credentials, research background
- /art — Conceptual art installations and catalog essays
- /art/living-arcade — Living Arcade catalog essay
- /art/human-stock — Human Stock catalog essay
- /writing — Essays, press, media, academic papers, archives
- /writing/papers — Academic papers with full abstracts and PDFs
- /writing/media — Media references and citations
- /writing/startups — Startup archive (238 posts, 2015-2024)
- /writing/web3 — Web3 archive (42 posts, 2019-2024)
- /books — Published books
- /ventures — Business ventures, exits, and current projects
- /connect — Contact and collaboration
- /ask — AI twin for exploring the work

## Credentials

- MIT Certificates: AI, Machine Learning, Data Science
- 18 professional certifications in legal technology, eDiscovery, digital forensics, information governance
- Expert witness 20+ years
- 4 exits, 30 years building technology companies

## Last Updated

2026-03-31