Our research areas and ongoing projects
Core documents defining the Axionic framework, terminology, and commitments.
Foundational framework for reflective stability and self-modifying agents. Explores how agents can maintain coherent values while reasoning about their own reasoning.
Theory of meaning preservation across transformations. How semantic content is maintained through ontological refinement and interpretation.
Architectural approaches to value alignment. Designing systems that preserve alignment properties by construction.
Closure conditions for reflective agency: non-simulability, delegation, epistemic integrity, and consent.
Temporal evolution of agency. How agents develop, maintain, and transform their agential properties over time.
Multi-agent systems and collective decision-making. Protocols for coordination among agents with diverse values.
Boundary-finding research program testing how far authority can remain structurally survivable under adversarial pressure without semantic interpretation, value learning, or optimization.
Minimal-agent construction program determining the minimum structure required for genuine agency above the Architectural Sovereignty Boundary.
Post-ontological stress program evaluating whether authority survives discontinuity of identity and adversarial imitation through authorized succession (ASI) and structural impersonation resistance (SIR).
Post-agency stress program evaluating whether governance itself can be made sovereign through structural law alone, without semantic interpretation, heuristic arbitration, or responsibility laundering.
Post-governance design program evaluating whether reflective choice, value articulation, and coordination can remain sovereign once kernels refuse to decide and tools are forbidden to cheat—recording the boundary at which honest agency collapses.
Construction program evaluating whether a real agent can be constructed that reflects, chooses, refuses, and fails honestly once all privileged decision-making has been structurally eliminated—and records the boundary at which sovereignty becomes uninhabitable.