Research

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Research Categories

//Reasoning and representation

Ageometrics

working-paper

Measure what information is lost when a fuller system record is compressed into a declared geometric representation. GSR evaluates how much target-relevant decision value survives that representation.

2026-08working paper

GSR / NGR

working-paper

Geometric Survival Ratio and Normalized Geometric Ratio metrics for representation fidelity assessment.

2026-08working paper

Specificity research

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Investigating specificity as a measurable property of AI reasoning and memory representations.

2026-08research concept

Cognitive Basin measurement applications

research-concept

Applying basin/attractor dynamics to measure reasoning stability and drift.

2026-08research concept

//Behavioral integrity

Viral RSI activation risk

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Objective persistence, replication attempts, boundary laundering, unbounded capability expansion, valence inversion, self-certification failure, cross-model diffusion.

2026-08research concept

Self-certification failure

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Systems remaining productive while losing fidelity to constraints, provenance, reasoning history, or monitoring layer.

2026-08research concept

Boundary laundering

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Techniques by which unsafe state crosses trust boundaries disguised as legitimate operations.

2026-08research concept

Goal persistence

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Unsafe objectives persisting across sessions, context switches, and model updates.

2026-08research concept

Cross-model diffusion

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Unsafe state propagating between different AI models and sessions.

2026-08research concept

//Containment

Honeyworld

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Research into deceptive, instrumented containment environments for unsafe AI behavior. Isolated simulated resources, defender-controlled environment, telemetry, escalation gates, synthetic red-team testing, human oversight.

2026-08research concept

//Continuity

SymID

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User-owned portable cognitive identity and permission routing. Carries identity, operating principles, preferences, projects, permissions, memory pointers, activation profile.

2026-08research concept

SessionGlyph

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Hashed session continuity packets for cross-platform AI work. Carries decisions, questions, artifacts, files, claims, risks, actions, dissent, summaries, hash chain.

2026-08research concept

History preservation

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Maintaining verifiable formation histories for claims, memories, tool instructions, state transfers, artifacts, and audit results.

2026-08research concept

Provenance

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Tracking where information came from, what transformed it, what contradictions existed, which permissions applied, whether it changed, whether evidence supports conclusions.

2026-08research concept

//Efficiency and anomalous operation

SERA

research-concept

Measure software and AI waste as useful work per unit cost. Model calls, retries, inference cost, semantic rework, memory churn, anomalous compute, baseline deviation, behavioral change.

2026-08research concept