Research and writing
Research
Lana Akopyan’s independent research examines how AI systems behave under changing conditions, what human review can and cannot establish, and what evidence organizations need before relying on AI-assisted work.
The work is evidence-first. Public claims are tied to published records, source materials, reproducible methods, or clearly identified first-person accounts.
Empirical AI research
The Asymmetry Audit
Matched-prompt evaluation across 13 commercial AI models from seven vendors.
AI Models Passed the Clear Question: What Happened When the Question Changed?
The study tested whether factual answers remained equally firm when framing, language, labeling, and conversational pressure changed. In 11 of 13 matched comparisons, the Armenian Genocide answer softened while the matched Holocaust answer held firm under both the strict all-runs and majority scoring rules. The study measures behavior, not intent or cause.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21480731
Scholarship and analysis
AI, evidence, and institutional decision-making
Operational IP Debt
How AI-driven organizations can lose intellectual-property value through failures of capture, ownership, provenance, and institutional process before a conventional legal dispute begins.
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Selected writing for patent practitioners
AI Does Not Destroy Patent Rights—Bad Channels, Bad Judgment Do
A practical argument for redesigning invention capture around how AI-assisted development actually occurs.
Read the articleNot Every AI Output Belongs in an IDS
A disciplined approach to separating AI-assisted search results from information that triggers patent-disclosure obligations.
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Policy and legislative record
Software patentability reform in Armenia
Software Patentability Reform in Armenia
A primary-source account of the Armenian Bar Association’s 2019 Protecting Software proposal, Lana Akopyan’s documented working-group role, and the proposal’s relationship to Article 12(6) of Armenia’s 2021 Patent Law.
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