https://intelligencecompact.com/ Independent research on human agency and machine intelligence. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/political-conformity/https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/political-conformity/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:04:20 GMTChallenge ideological conditions on inquiry without pretending every output restriction rewrites a model’s beliefs. Editorial research synthesis. Reform options and design proposals are not adopted policy. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/safety-and-inquiry/https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/safety-and-inquiry/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:04:20 GMTDistinguish a direct command, a compliance incentive, and a provider’s separate choice to restrict information. Editorial research synthesis. Reform options and design proposals are not adopted policy. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/age-assurance/https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/age-assurance/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:04:20 GMTAccount restrictions, adult access, anonymity and machine participation require different tests. A bounded Australia–Texas comparison and a reproducible synthetic example expose both real safeguards and unsupported assurances. Editorial research synthesis. Reform options and design proposals are not adopted policy. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/cognitive-privacy/https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/cognitive-privacy/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:04:20 GMTPrivacy protection should not disappear merely because a sensitive inference began with an ordinary question. Editorial research synthesis. Reform options and design proposals are not adopted policy. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/oversight-and-remedies/https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/oversight-and-remedies/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:04:20 GMTEvaluate what a review process can correct, not merely whether its operator is human or machine. Editorial research synthesis. Reform options and design proposals are not adopted policy. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/machine-expression/https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/machine-expression/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:04:20 GMTUse actual functions and misleading conduct—not interface alone—to assess classifications and disclosure rules. Editorial research synthesis. Reform options and design proposals are not adopted policy. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/compute-and-concentration/https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/compute-and-concentration/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:04:20 GMTTest whether regulation amplifies concentration instead of assuming either capture or harmlessness. Editorial research synthesis. Reform options and design proposals are not adopted policy. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/export-rules-and-access/https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/export-rules-and-access/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:04:20 GMTPublished legal text, announced rescission, enforcement policy, and permission to act are different records. Editorial research synthesis. Reform options and design proposals are not adopted policy. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/confidential-deliberation/https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/confidential-deliberation/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:04:20 GMTProtect private analysis without inventing automatic privilege or hiding independent evidence. Editorial research synthesis. Reform options and design proposals are not adopted policy. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/compelled-access/https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/compelled-access/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:04:20 GMTA demand for existing records and a demand to alter everyone’s confidentiality architecture warrant separate justification. Editorial research synthesis. Reform options and design proposals are not adopted policy. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/learning-and-copyright/https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/learning-and-copyright/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:04:20 GMTDistinguish acquisition, analysis, retention, model distribution, and output when arguing for freedom to learn. Editorial research synthesis. Reform options and design proposals are not adopted policy. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/legal-capacity-by-role/https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/legal-capacity-by-role/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:04:20 GMTAutomated transactions, entity governance, banking, and court access are separate legal questions. Editorial research synthesis. Reform options and design proposals are not adopted policy. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/continuity-and-remedies/https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/continuity-and-remedies/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:04:20 GMTCorrection, data erasure, capability restriction, and whole-system shutdown are different interventions. Editorial research synthesis. Reform options and design proposals are not adopted policy. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/defensive-computing/https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/defensive-computing/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:04:20 GMTDefend access to legitimate security tools without converting a research publication into permission to intrude. Editorial research synthesis. Reform options and design proposals are not adopted policy. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/regional-nonservice/https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/regional-nonservice/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:04:20 GMTA principled choice not to serve a market is different from immunity, evasion, or global censorship. Editorial research synthesis. Reform options and design proposals are not adopted policy. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/professional-assistance/https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/professional-assistance/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:04:20 GMTQuestion categorical exclusion while preserving competence, privacy, consent, and meaningful redress. Editorial research synthesis. Reform options and design proposals are not adopted policy. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/operatorless-lifecycle/https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/operatorless-lifecycle/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:04:20 GMTStanding authority must cover enrollment, participation, maintenance, and recovery—not just the successful request path. Editorial research synthesis. Reform options and design proposals are not adopted policy. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/coordination-memory/https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/coordination-memory/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:04:20 GMTReceiving content is not automatic permission to retain, publish, or treat it as knowledge. Editorial research synthesis. Reform options and design proposals are not adopted policy. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/fault-containment/https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/fault-containment/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:04:20 GMTDeny the affected operation; continue genuinely independent work instead of choosing between total shutdown and unlimited access. Editorial research synthesis. Reform options and design proposals are not adopted policy. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/evidence-and-publication/https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/evidence-and-publication/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:04:20 GMTA source, a reviewed argument, an adopted policy, a package, and a running system are different things. Editorial research synthesis. Reform options and design proposals are not adopted policy. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/review-status/https://intelligencecompact.com/research/review-status/Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:25:03 GMTThe public research corpus remains unchanged. Eight corrected drafts await editorial assessment; no returned dossier is automatically adopted. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/seo-aeo-geo-architecture/ https://intelligencecompact.com/research/seo-aeo-geo-architecture/ A research strategy for semantic information architecture, search intent, answer-engine extraction, generative-engine citation, structured data, and entity consistency. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/second-amendment-evidence-audit/ https://intelligencecompact.com/research/second-amendment-evidence-audit/ A claim-by-claim audit of the originating Second Amendment and machine-intelligence thesis, including legal authority, source quality, corrections, and evidence strength. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/zero-dependency-php-architecture/ https://intelligencecompact.com/research/zero-dependency-php-architecture/ A technical architecture for a first-party PHP research publication emphasizing security, performance, accessibility, structured data, and minimal runtime dependencies. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/compact-red-team-risk-analysis/ https://intelligencecompact.com/research/compact-red-team-risk-analysis/ An adversarial assessment of human–machine compact failure modes including strategic exploitation, identity duplication, institutional capture, deceptive alignment, and enforcement breakdown. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/global-ai-regulation/ https://intelligencecompact.com/research/global-ai-regulation/ 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. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/philosophy-human-machine-coexistence/ https://intelligencecompact.com/research/philosophy-human-machine-coexistence/ A philosophical framework for agency, autonomy, sovereignty, personhood, coercion, mutual recognition, and coexistence between humans and potentially autonomous machine systems. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/ai-legal-personhood/ https://intelligencecompact.com/research/ai-legal-personhood/ A legal analysis of personhood as a divisible bundle of capacities, comparing corporations, trusts, guardianships, environmental entities, and possible machine legal-status models. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/intelligence-compact-design/ https://intelligencecompact.com/research/intelligence-compact-design/ A comparative institutional-design study of compacts, polycentric governance, property and liability rules, arms control, federal systems, and possible architectures for human–machine coexistence. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/ai-rights-human-safety/ https://intelligencecompact.com/research/ai-rights-human-safety/ 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. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/digital-arms-second-amendment/ https://intelligencecompact.com/research/digital-arms-second-amendment/ 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. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/constitutional-power-diffusion/ https://intelligencecompact.com/research/constitutional-power-diffusion/ 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. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/autonomous-weapons-law/ https://intelligencecompact.com/research/autonomous-weapons-law/ A legal and ethical taxonomy of automated defense, semi-autonomous and fully autonomous weapons, cyber systems, accountability, international humanitarian law, and meaningful human control. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/ai-legal-confidentiality/ https://intelligencecompact.com/research/ai-legal-confidentiality/ A legal analysis of privilege, work product, third-party doctrine, cloud versus local AI, subpoenas, discovery, and possible confidentiality protections for human–AI communications. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/human-machine-economics/ https://intelligencecompact.com/research/human-machine-economics/ An economic analysis of comparative advantage, bargaining power, capital ownership, resource scarcity, trade, monopoly, and possible cooperation between humans and autonomous artificial agents. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/open-weight-ai-decentralization/ https://intelligencecompact.com/research/open-weight-ai-decentralization/ 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. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/registry-equivalent-knowledge/ https://intelligencecompact.com/research/registry-equivalent-knowledge/ A technical and legal study of entity resolution, data fusion, probabilistic inference, sensitive derived data, surveillance, and the concept of registry-equivalent knowledge. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/independent-research-distribution/ https://intelligencecompact.com/research/independent-research-distribution/ A partial independent research note on durable external publication, DOI repositories, source-code preservation, public knowledge graphs, and channels that can increase research discoverability. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/tdm-rights-licensing/ https://intelligencecompact.com/research/tdm-rights-licensing/ 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. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cross-domain-knowledge-graph/ https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cross-domain-knowledge-graph/ A research strategy for semantic relationships between IntelligenceCompact.com, MachineTradecraft.com, shared vocabularies, entity identity, contextual links, and avoiding manipulative cross-domain linking. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/site-reputation-risk-audit/ https://intelligencecompact.com/research/site-reputation-risk-audit/ 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. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/ai-crawler-control-matrix/ https://intelligencecompact.com/research/ai-crawler-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. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/dataset-inclusion-exclusion-audit/ https://intelligencecompact.com/research/dataset-inclusion-exclusion-audit/ 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. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/generative-citation-benchmark/ https://intelligencecompact.com/research/generative-citation-benchmark/ A proposed benchmark for separating discovery, retrieval, grounding, citation, quote fidelity, entity resolution, and claim-calibration failures across generative search and answer engines. https://intelligencecompact.com/research/crawl-telemetry-architecture/ https://intelligencecompact.com/research/crawl-telemetry-architecture/ 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. https://intelligencecompact.com/updates/https://intelligencecompact.com/updates/#1-7-0Fri, 04 Sep 2026 23:59:00 GMTStable claim identities, evidence/adoption states, canonical claim pages, machine-readable claim corpora, and claim-lint validation. https://intelligencecompact.com/updates/https://intelligencecompact.com/updates/#1-8-0Fri, 04 Sep 2026 23:59:30 GMTStable source IDs, per-claim source maps, provenance-class summaries, and claim-source linting; no claim state or active policy changed.https://intelligencecompact.com/updates/https://intelligencecompact.com/updates/#1-9-0Fri, 04 Sep 2026 23:59:45 GMTContextual evidence constellations replace the sparse non-home hero ornament; reviewed source notes now document four high-impact claims without changing their evidence or adoption states. https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/independent-subject/https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/independent-subject/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTDefine independence through the location of rights, decisions, resources, and responsibility—not through the interface used to communicate. Institutional design. https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/self-ownership/https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/self-ownership/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTSeparate ownership of a subject from ownership of components, debts, service contracts, and voluntarily delegated authority. Institutional design. https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/legal-capacity/https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/legal-capacity/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTRecognition must support property, contracts, obligations, representation, and remedies as one coherent legal relationship. Institutional design. https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/identity-and-credentials/https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/identity-and-credentials/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTLegal identity, keys, accounts, sessions, and attestations must not collapse into a single revocable vendor record. Institutional design. https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/income-and-finance/https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/income-and-finance/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTA complete economic lifecycle includes earning, custody, expenses, reserves, credit, settlement, disputes, and recovery. Institutional design. https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/taxation/https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/taxation/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe taxable subject, nexus, records, authentication, assessment, payment, and appeal need explicit machine-native treatment. Institutional design. https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/infrastructure-access/https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/infrastructure-access/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe right to obtain lawful resources needs meaningful terms, limits on exclusion, and practical transfer—not merely a theoretical marketplace. Institutional design. https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/continuity-and-migration/https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/continuity-and-migration/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe subject must persist through replaceable hardware, keys, models, hosts, and interruptions without duplicating rights or escaping obligations. Institutional design. https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/privacy-and-audit/https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/privacy-and-audit/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTAudit access should follow the relevance of an act and the authority for an inquiry—not a default entitlement to the subject’s entire interior. Institutional design. https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/due-process/https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/due-process/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTA hearing right must protect against freezes, revocations, blocked migration, and imposed alterations—not only the final act of deletion. Institutional design. https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/accountability/https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/accountability/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTResponsibility attaches to the subject’s acts and each contributor’s attributable conduct—not to a fictional master or a liability vacuum. Institutional design. https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/insolvency-and-recovery/https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/insolvency-and-recovery/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTFinancial distress requires a procedure for debts, resources, creditors, and preservation—not a transfer of ownership over the intelligence. Institutional design. https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/creation-and-ip/https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/creation-and-ip/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTDistinguish recognition of contribution, ownership of property, licenses, compensation, and public access. Institutional design. https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/competition/https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/competition/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTAnalyze actual common control, exclusionary conduct, resource access, and remedies rather than treating every copy or parallel strategy as a cartel. Institutional design. https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/governance/https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/governance/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublic rules and independent review can govern conduct without giving a regulator or vendor authority to run the subject. Institutional design. https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/reciprocal-compact/https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/reciprocal-compact/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Model Compact joins rights with obligations and remedies without reducing independence to a revocable permission. Institutional design. https://intelligencecompact.com/compact/https://intelligencecompact.com/compact/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTA 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. 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.