Founder · Knowledge LockerA technical and operational leader working across energy, manufacturing, automation, software, and the institutional questions raised by artificial intelligence.
Brad is Executive Vice President, Manufacturing & Technology at Erthos. His work brings together manufacturing strategy, technology integration, industrial controls, robotics, and lifecycle performance to turn innovative systems into repeatable operating capability.
He is also a founder and owner of Aderis Energy and continues as a product subject-matter expert and strategic advisor. Across these roles, his experience joins technical depth with business analysis, organizational leadership, renewable-energy operations, and the practical work of building systems people must be able to understand and trust.
Biography synthesized from Brad’s public LinkedIn profile and October 2026 professional announcement. It should remain author-editable and source-linked.
Agency grows from a practical conviction: people deserve understandable systems, meaningful capability, evidence they control, and a genuine role in shaping technological change. The Human Agency Economy extends that conviction from energy and industrial technology into education, AI, institutions, and the knowledge commons.
A permanent home for the papers that establish the intellectual foundation of this work.
Professional ethics and public oversight in addressing the alignment problem
Why developers, executives, boards, investors, and professional leaders remain accountable for consequential AI choices—even when regulation is incomplete.
A practical operating model for rapid, safe, and high-quality delivery
A practical model for using AI to increase software delivery speed while strengthening architecture, requirements, verification, security, and human accountability.
Security, resource allocation, and fulfillment in an age of AI automation
A framework for material security, meaningful activity, shared productive capacity, and human choice if paid employment becomes less central to economic participation.
Control, stewardship, and partnership with advanced intelligence
A stewardship-alignment framework joining technical control and institutional accountability to human dignity, democratic agency, biodiversity, and ecological resilience.
The intellectual commons and lifelong learning for an automated society
A proposal for lifelong public learning that combines trusted knowledge, AI assistance, mentorship, practice, and portable recognition of demonstrated capability.
For every paper
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For public papers
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