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Authorship Statement

This is the full statement referenced from every paper in the research suite by the line "Full statement: michaeldariuseastwood.com/authorship". Last revised 22 August 2026.

Declaration of AI-Assisted Human Authorship

The author of the works in this research programme is Michael Darius Eastwood, a human being. Every core concept, hypothesis, experimental design, claim and conclusion in these papers originates from human ideation. No part of any manuscript is a wholly generated artificial-intelligence output.

Artificial-intelligence tools (Anthropic’s Claude family and other large-language-model assistants) were used as instruments under continuous human direction, in the way a word processor, calculator or research assistant is used: for editing and prose refinement, literature search and summarisation (manually verified against primary sources), document structure, formatting, brainstorming against author-defined questions, and the acceleration of drafting to author-defined outlines and instructions. All selection, coordination, arrangement and final editorial judgment are the author’s. Every substantive output was reviewed, tested or verified by the author, who takes full responsibility for the accuracy and integrity of the final texts. The tools increased the speed of the work; they were never relied upon as its source.

United Kingdom

In accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, the author undertook the arrangements necessary for the creation of these works and asserts full human authorship and moral rights: each is a human-authored work produced with computer assistance, not a computer-generated work.

United States

Consistent with United States Copyright Office guidance on works containing AI-generated material, the human contribution (conception, selection, coordination, arrangement and final expression) is asserted as sufficient for full human authorship.

Inventions

Any novel technical contribution described in these works was conceived by the human author; no artificial-intelligence system autonomously invented anything presented in them.