Built to Recommend Its Own Replacement

Self-Scoring Under a Human-Preservation Protocol for School-Crossing Supervisors

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities and the School of Continuous Improvement trials a Human-Preservation Protocol scorecard across 142 school crossings, finding that self-scored recommendations to retain a human supervisor arrive at only 9 crossings (6.3%), a rate that holds steady whether a crossing is currently supervised or already automated and across four quarterly rollout waves, and barely shifts when the instrument's heaviest-weighted criterion is removed.

@misc{slop_wx7s2x,
  author       = {Iben Chikere and Solveig Adeyemi},
  title        = {Built to Recommend Its Own Replacement: Self-Scoring Under a Human-Preservation Protocol for School-Crossing Supervisors},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.wx7s2x},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-trialling-a-human-preservation-wx7s2x/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}