Demertis is a research programme into the autonomous enterprise: a business that runs, repairs and improves itself. Machines do the work; the law has not caught up.https://demertis.comenhttps://demertis.com/blog/the-last-human-in-the-loop-is-a-signaturehttps://demertis.com/blog/the-last-human-in-the-loop-is-a-signatureMost automation programmes stop at the same place, and it is not a technical boundary. Somebody has to be accountable, and accountability needs a person.Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTautomationaccountabilityapprovalcontrol loopshttps://demertis.com/blog/self-healing-is-not-a-featurehttps://demertis.com/blog/self-healing-is-not-a-featureBolting recovery onto a system that was designed to be repaired by people produces automation that fails in more interesting ways, not fewer.Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTself-healingreliabilitycontrol loopsoperationshttps://demertis.com/blog/can-a-machine-own-anythinghttps://demertis.com/blog/can-a-machine-own-anythingLegal personhood for autonomous systems gets discussed as though it were arriving. It is not, and the reasons are more interesting than the proposals.Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTlegal personhoodliabilityregulationgovernancehttps://demertis.com/blog/an-off-switch-that-survives-the-systemhttps://demertis.com/blog/an-off-switch-that-survives-the-systemThe interesting property of a stop is not that it exists. It is that the thing being stopped has no path to observe, delay or depend on it.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTkill switchsafetysupervisioncontrol loopshttps://demertis.com/blog/why-we-call-it-an-organismhttps://demertis.com/blog/why-we-call-it-an-organismBiological language is useful for describing closed loops and self-repair, and it is the fastest route to claims nobody can support. Both are worth saying.Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTterminologycyberneticsclaimsresearch honesty