Alejandro Díaz Silva
I build legal infrastructure for problems the law hasn’t named yet.
Founder, ConsciousVault UK · London
The self, operated by machines, still needs a custodian.Working thesis · 2026
The law hasn’t caught up to the self yet.
The next decade will hand large parts of our lives to AI systems acting on our behalf. Negotiating. Responding. Representing. Deciding. The law has no coherent answer for what happens when those representations fail, or who bears duty for the upstream choices that shaped them.
My work names that gap — operational identity — and fills it with a fiduciary architecture already enforceable under trust law. A principal. An operator. A custodian. The last one is the institution I’m building.
A legal-institutional custody architecture for operational identity. Proposal phase — currently open to correspondence from academics, regulators, and early-design partners.
consciousvault.uk →Papers and in-progress work.
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SSRN · 2026 · 23 pp
Takes Khan & Pozen’s critique of Balkin seriously, then argues fiduciary duties travel cleanly into AI-mediated identity via trust-law mechanics already in force — RUFADAA, California §3344.1, the ELVIS Act, and the Mental Capacity Act 2005 as post-mortem and incapacity analogues.
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Fiduciary Infrastructure of Operational IdentityMonograph · In prep · 2027
Five-part architecture for the institutional layer beneath AI-mediated identity. Moves the argument from law-review essay to standalone institutional blueprint. ~90–120 pp.
Legal practitioner and independent researcher based in London. Trained in the civil-law tradition; building in the Anglo-common-law institutional world. Chilean by origin, British by jurisdiction, bilingual by default. I write across law, technology, and governance — in whichever language the argument belongs.