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 architectureExplore by Role
The framework is presented through three lenses, each with distinct depth and focus.
For Researchers
Academic and technical depth
- Formal foundations and proofs
- Failure mode analysis
- Open research questions
- Reflections from federated cohorts
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For Implementers
Code and integration guides
- Working code examples
- API integration patterns
- Service architecture diagrams
- Deployment patterns
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For Leaders
Strategic AI governance
- Executive briefing and business case
- Regulatory alignment (EU AI Act)
- Implementation roadmap
- Risk management framework
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Research Papers
Published research from the Tractatus framework programme.
Paper A · Review Draft v3
New
May 2026 · EN/MI/DE
Sovereign-Record Architecture for Community-Scale Platforms
An alternative substrate for community-scale platforms in which sovereignty is a property of the records themselves, not a concession the operator may revoke. Cryptographic provenance, tenant-bounded policy enforcement, bilateral and bounded federation, member-driven sovereign portability, and a supervised participatory dialogue surface.
Paper B · Synopsis
New
May 2026 · EN/MI/DE/FR · 2-page synopsis
Situated Language Layers for Minority-Language and Indigenous Communities
Empirical companion to Paper A. Per-tenant situated language layer trained on the tenant’s own corpus, governed by the tenant’s own authority, on infrastructure inside the tenant’s jurisdictional reach. Five training-discipline rules empirically derived; nine weight-modification ablation experiments motivating a strict no-weight-modification stance.
WP-001 · V1.0
April 2026 · EN/DE/FR/NL/MI
Distributive Equity Through Structure
A community-scale worked example of values stickiness. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19600614. Five languages. CC BY 4.0.
Policy Brief · V0.1
New
April 2026
· DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19635598
Sovereign AI Governance at Community Scale: An EU Policy Brief
Policy-audience derivative of the Distributive Equity whitepaper. Three mechanisms mapped to EU regulatory hooks. English & German. CC BY 4.0.
STO-INN-0003 v2.1 | John Stroh & Claude (Anthropic) | January 2026
v2.1-A
Academic
Full academic treatment with formal proofs, existential risk context, and comprehensive citations.
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v2.1-C
Community
Practical guide for organisations evaluating the framework for adoption.
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v2.1-P
Policymakers
Regulatory strategy, certification infrastructure, and policy recommendations.
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Research 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, Dr Taiuru review
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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