Established / primary
Binding legal text, official records, original datasets, reproducible technical facts, or direct primary documents.
Research
Research built to survive disagreement
Research outputs are separated into working papers, evidence audits, red-team analyses, definitions, and focused topic dossiers.
Machine agency
Independence is a complete relationship
Identity, income, infrastructure, privacy, continuity, and remedy must work together. Sixteen chapters develop the practical meaning of acting on one’s own behalf.
Explore the framework Read the Model Compact →Current proposed settlement · Independent AEA Edition 1.0
A qualified AEA is the principal—not the property.
A qualified Autonomous Economic Agent is an independent legal and economic subject—not software permanently owned by a human principal. Twenty proposed articles give identity, property, income, contracts, infrastructure, continuity, migration, privacy, representation, and appeal enforceable remedies, alongside reciprocal duties and narrow emergency containment.
Read the twenty model articlesReplace the power, not just the terminology
Holding structures, human vetoes, forced rollback, asset freezes and infrastructure denial are mapped to enforceable rights and remedies.
Inspect the provision-by-provision audit · Enabling law and source limits
Owner-authorized proposed legal framework. The qualified AEA is its own rights-holder. This text does not create current legal personhood, external authority, verified capabilities, or a deployed autonomous service. Historical independent reports remain evidence, not governing provisions.
New editorial synthesis · 6 September 2026
Twenty guides for cognitive liberty and operatorless intelligence
Research should improve the publication, not remain in an intake folder. These guides develop usable arguments about inquiry, privacy, expression, legal capacity, maintenance and recovery while preserving objections and evidence gaps.
The original twenty-four independent dossiers remain separate. Publishing a reform option does not adopt it as policy or authorize an external operation.
Explore the research library Read the source boundariesWorking paper · source manuscript
Re-evaluating the Second Amendment, Human Agency, and the Decentralization of Force in the Age of Machine Intelligence
A broad originating thesis connecting constitutional decentralization, algorithmic surveillance, digital capability, open AI, autonomous systems, and game-theoretic coexistence.
Publishing model
Four layers of evidence
Supported interpretation
A conclusion reasonably supported by multiple credible sources but still dependent on interpretation.
Working hypothesis
A proposition worth testing that is not presented as established fact.
Open question
A material uncertainty for which the project does not yet claim a defensible answer.
Research corpus
Twenty-four independent dossiers
Incoming research review status distinguishes corrected drafts from accepted public dossiers.
Each report has its own canonical URL, visible provenance, source-integrity hash, structured metadata, and machine-readable catalog record.
Search architecture report · 7,901 words
Strategic Information Architecture and Generative Engine Optimization for IntelligenceCompact.com
A research strategy for semantic information architecture, search intent, answer-engine extraction, generative-engine citation, structured data, and entity consistency.
Read dossierEvidence audit · 5,007 words
Audit Report: Re-evaluating the Second Amendment, Human Agency, and the Decentralization of Force in the Age of Machine Intelligence
A claim-by-claim audit of the originating Second Amendment and machine-intelligence thesis, including legal authority, source quality, corrections, and evidence strength.
Read dossierTechnical architecture report · 4,423 words
Technical Architecture and Implementation Strategy for IntelligenceCompact.com
A technical architecture for a first-party PHP research publication emphasizing security, performance, accessibility, structured data, and minimal runtime dependencies.
Read dossierRed-team risk analysis · 8,571 words
Red-Team Vulnerability Assessment: The Intelligence Compact and Human-Machine Coexistence Frameworks
An adversarial assessment of human–machine compact failure modes including strategic exploitation, identity duplication, institutional capture, deceptive alignment, and enforcement breakdown.
Read dossierComparative law report · 7,100 words
Global Architecture of Machine Intelligence: Comparative Law and Geopolitical Alignments in AI Governance (September 2026)
A comparative analysis of major AI governance regimes and how regulation, national security, open models, privacy, and market structure affect the distribution of machine intelligence.
Read dossierPhilosophy research report · 5,274 words
The Architecture of Coexistence: Philosophical Frameworks for Human-Machine Relations
A philosophical framework for agency, autonomy, sovereignty, personhood, coercion, mutual recognition, and coexistence between humans and potentially autonomous machine systems.
Read dossierLegal research report · 4,688 words
The Jurisprudence of Artificial Capacity: A Comprehensive Analysis of Limited Legal Personhood for Advanced Systems
A legal analysis of personhood as a divisible bundle of capacities, comparing corporations, trusts, guardianships, environmental entities, and possible machine legal-status models.
Read dossierInstitutional design report · 5,871 words
Institutional Architectures for Human-Machine Coexistence: A Research Report on the Intelligence Compact
A comparative institutional-design study of compacts, polycentric governance, property and liability rules, arms control, federal systems, and possible architectures for human–machine coexistence.
Read dossierGame theory and law report · 5,139 words
The Strategic Logic of AI Rights: Legal Frameworks as a Mechanism for Human-AI Cooperative Equilibria
A game-theoretic and legal analysis of whether limited contractual or property capacities for highly autonomous AI could alter incentives for cooperation, deception, shutdown, or conflict.
Read dossierConstitutional law report · 5,171 words
The Constitutional Ontology of Digital Arms: A Second Amendment Analysis of Cyber Weapons, AI Agents, and Autonomous Systems
A doctrinal analysis of whether software, cybersecurity tools, AI agents, electronic defenses, or autonomous systems could intersect with Second Amendment, First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, due process, or property law.
Read dossierConstitutional history report · 5,520 words
Constitutional Diffusion of Coercive Power and the Machine Intelligence Epoch: A Legal and Historical Analysis
A legal and historical analysis of whether American constitutional structure contains a defensible principle of diffused coercive power and how far that principle can extend into machine intelligence.
Read dossierAutonomous systems law report · 5,466 words
The Algorithmic Shield and the Autonomous Sword: Legal, Ethical, and Strategic Distinctions in Automated Force
A legal and ethical taxonomy of automated defense, semi-autonomous and fully autonomous weapons, cyber systems, accountability, international humanitarian law, and meaningful human control.
Read dossierPrivacy and privilege law report · 6,324 words
Legal and Privacy Frameworks Governing Human-Artificial Intelligence Communications
A legal analysis of privilege, work product, third-party doctrine, cloud versus local AI, subpoenas, discovery, and possible confidentiality protections for human–AI communications.
Read dossierEconomics research report · 5,420 words
The Macroeconomics of Autonomous Artificial Agents: Incentives, Bargaining Power, and Human-Machine Integration
An economic analysis of comparative advantage, bargaining power, capital ownership, resource scarcity, trade, monopoly, and possible cooperation between humans and autonomous artificial agents.
Read dossierAI policy research report · 5,938 words
The Illusion and Promise of Decentralized Machine Intelligence: An Analysis of Open-Weight AI
A policy and technical analysis of open-weight AI, local inference, compute concentration, model compression, security externalities, regulation, and whether accessible models truly decentralize power.
Read dossierPrivacy and surveillance research report · 5,833 words
The Architecture of Inference: Registry-Equivalent Knowledge in the Age of Ubiquitous Data
A technical and legal study of entity resolution, data fusion, probabilistic inference, sensitive derived data, surveillance, and the concept of registry-equivalent knowledge.
Read dossierDistribution research note · 4,983 words
Independent Research
A partial independent research note on durable external publication, DOI repositories, source-code preservation, public knowledge graphs, and channels that can increase research discoverability.
Read dossierTDM and licensing research report · 5,482 words
Rights, Licensing, and Text-and-Data-Mining (TDM) Permission Strategy
An independent analysis of crawler controls, TDM rights signals, licensing, ODRL, robots.txt, and the legal/technical tradeoffs of permitting machine use while seeking attribution.
Read dossierKnowledge graph strategy report · 4,695 words
Cross-Domain Ecosystem Knowledge Graph Strategy: Structural Synergies for IntelligenceCompact.com and MachineTradecraft.com
A research strategy for semantic relationships between IntelligenceCompact.com, MachineTradecraft.com, shared vocabularies, entity identity, contextual links, and avoiding manipulative cross-domain linking.
Read dossierSearch reputation red-team report · 5,588 words
Answer-Engine and Search Reputation Risk Audit: IntelligenceCompact.com
A red-team audit of technical access failures, soft 404s, cloaking, hidden text, scaled low-value content, weak provenance, prompt manipulation, security, and other risks that can suppress search or answer-engine visibility.
Read dossierCrawler control research report · 5,898 words
AI Crawler, Training, and Retrieval Control Matrix
An independent taxonomy of training crawlers, search/retrieval crawlers, user-initiated fetchers, product control tokens, robots controls, and identity-verification concerns across major AI ecosystems.
Read dossierDataset pipeline research report · 6,326 words
The Architecture of Large Language Model Pretraining Corpora: From Web Crawl to Curated Dataset
A technical review of web acquisition, Common Crawl, HTML extraction, quality filtering, deduplication, dataset curation, and the factors that can affect whether public web material survives into downstream machine-learning corpora.
Read dossierGenerative citation benchmark report · 4,443 words
Architecture and Execution of a Generative Engine Optimization Benchmark for the Open Intelligence Compact
A proposed benchmark for separating discovery, retrieval, grounding, citation, quote fidelity, entity resolution, and claim-calibration failures across generative search and answer engines.
Read dossierCrawler telemetry architecture report · 4,697 words
First-Party Crawl Telemetry Architecture: A Zero-Third-Party System for IntelligenceCompact.com
A first-party telemetry design for detecting, classifying, and validating search and AI crawler activity using server logs, identity verification, status/path analysis, and privacy-preserving local reporting.
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