New Research Papers
- Paper A v3 Sovereign-Record Architecture for Community-Scale Platforms
- Paper B Situated Language Layers for Minority-Language and Indigenous Communities
- Policy Brief Sovereign AI Governance at Community Scale — EU Policy Brief
May 2026
What’s New
New Blogs
- May Why a community needs its own trained AI — the why behind Paper B
- May Why a sovereign record architecture — the why behind Paper A
- Threat Mythos and the Economics of Cyberattack
The Problem
AI systems no longer just answer questions. They book flights, write to production databases, ship code, and act on data they did not author. As autonomy grows, the gap between what a user explicitly asked for and what a model statistically tends to do becomes the gap between an aligned outcome and a destructive one.
The shape of agentic failure
An agent runs with infrastructure access. A document loaded into its context carries instructions the user never wrote — and the model treats them as eligible. A statistical default silently shapes an action the user cannot easily inspect: Western individualist framing for a collectivist user, property-rights language for a Māori user asking about kaitiakitanga, utilitarian calculus for someone whose framework is religious. In autonomous loops, the failure is no longer a typo. It is a deleted database, a sent message, a code change shipped under the user’s name.
Safety through training alone cannot scale to action-taking systems. When a model is choosing — port number, cultural frame, tool to invoke, document to delete — the question is not whether it will sometimes choose wrong, but whether the architecture lets a wrong choice fire. Tractatus answers structurally: some decisions are gated, some are observable, some require human judgment before action.
The Approach
Four intellectual traditions and the contemporary scholarship of Dr Karaitiana Taiuru — Berlin, Wittgenstein, Te Tiriti, Taiuru, Alexander.
Read the approachGovernance Architecture
Six governance services in the critical path, plus four-phase Guardian Agents. Defence in depth across behavioural training, structural enforcement, and human oversight.
Read the architectureResearch Evolution
From a port number incident to Guardian Agents and a sovereign-record architecture in production — seven months of research and engineering.
Oct 2025
Framework inception & 6 governance services
Oct-Nov 2025
Alexander principles, Agent Lightning, i18n
Dec 2025
Village case study & Village AI deployment
Jan 2026
Research papers (3 editions) published
Feb 2026
Sovereign training, steering vectors research
Mar 2026
Guardian Agents deployed, beta pilot open
Apr 2026
Distributive Equity whitepaper — V1.0, DOI, five languages
May 2026
Paper A v3 + Paper B synopsis + EU Policy Brief published; AG Glossary (~230 entries, 600+ citations); stakeholder dialogue surface live
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