A Translation Project for the AI Era

Abstract

This paper announces the Code After Series: six papers over twenty-four months. Each extends the framework of Code After: Law, Accounting, and the Governance of Artificial Intelligence (v0.9, April 2026) into a distinct institutional domain being reshaped by AI. The paper opens by naming the structural break the project is built to address — the move from a Pre-Code condition, in which deterministic code was executed by transparent tools, to a Post-Code condition, in which probabilistic intelligence operates as a quasi-agent inside institutions built for the earlier regime. It sets out the project's core thesis — that AI is a general-purpose decoupling force acting on institutions built for stable representation — and specifies the methodological discipline, publication architecture, and distribution model through which the series will be produced and disseminated. It also serves as a formal invitation to local publishers, translators, and institutional partners positioned to produce language editions outside the G2.

Suggested Citation

Yan, R. (2026). Code After: A Translation Project for the AI Era. Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20079145. Also deposited on SSRN and ResearchGate.

Companion Work

Yan, R. (2026). Code After: Law, Accounting, and the Governance of Artificial Intelligence (v0.9, April 2026). Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19537473. Also deposited on SSRN (ID: 6563959) and ResearchGate (Richard-Yan-10).