About
Authority Design Lab
An independent initiative investigating how authority is distributed, exercised, and redesigned between people and artificial intelligence systems.
Updated: 19 September 2026
The lab
“Authority design is the deliberate specification of who may propose, decide, execute, veto, and review decisions—and who may change those rules.”
An editorial synthesis informed by the cited literature, not a universally established academic definition.
Founder
Fábio Rodrigues
Fábio Rodrigues is a business executive, a production and systems engineer, and a doctoral student in Business Administration at FGV EAESP. His research interests connect organizational design, authority, and human–AI collaboration.
The academic affiliation is biographical; the lab is an independent initiative.