Agency or abdication:
AI, empowerment, and
the futures we are choosing.

I work on one organizing question: when AI is adopted, who gains agency and who loses it? The research spans education, organizational management, labor markets, knowledge production, and strategic foresight, unified by a single analytical commitment: distinguishing genuine empowerment from dependency dressed up as adoption.

I am based at Narxoz Business School in Almaty, where I lead research on AI governance, institutional futures, and the application of these frameworks in a Central Asian context. I publish through working papers because conventional academic publishing often moves too slowly for the world it is trying to describe.