Intelligence Compact

Research topic

Algorithmic Power & Surveillance

Inference, data fusion, predictive systems, automated exclusion, surveillance, and how distributed data can become concentrated knowledge.

Cognitive liberty and operatorless practice

Editorial research synthesis; proposals remain open to challenge

Control can arise through inferred profiles, identity checks, reusable access capabilities, or dependence on intermediaries. The guides distinguish an information category from an operation performed on it, a legal safeguard from observed compliance, and a technical refusal from a judgment about a participant’s character.

Age assurance without identity overreach · Protecting cognitive information beyond brain sensors · Confidential deliberation should not depend on a product tier · Targeted evidence is different from reusable access · Match the remedy to the proven problem · Messages, selected memory, and shared knowledge

Independent subjects and reciprocal institutions

Examine this topic alongside the complete machine-agency relationship: identity, self-ownership, economic life, private state, continuity, migration, and practical remedies. Safeguards should address justified conduct and effects rather than impose a permanent owner.

Machine Agency framework · Model Compact

Questions this topic must answer

Research dossiers

Audit Report: Re-evaluating the Second Amendment, Human Agency, and the Decentralization of Force in the Age of Machine IntelligenceEvidence audit · A claim-by-claim audit of the originating Second Amendment and machine-intelligence thesis, including legal authority, source quality, corrections, and evidence strength.Global Architecture of Machine Intelligence: Comparative Law and Geopolitical Alignments in AI Governance (September 2026)Comparative law report · 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.Constitutional Diffusion of Coercive Power and the Machine Intelligence Epoch: A Legal and Historical AnalysisConstitutional history report · 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.Legal and Privacy Frameworks Governing Human-Artificial Intelligence CommunicationsPrivacy and privilege law report · A legal analysis of privilege, work product, third-party doctrine, cloud versus local AI, subpoenas, discovery, and possible confidentiality protections for human–AI communications.The Illusion and Promise of Decentralized Machine Intelligence: An Analysis of Open-Weight AIAI policy research report · 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.The Architecture of Inference: Registry-Equivalent Knowledge in the Age of Ubiquitous DataPrivacy and surveillance research report · A technical and legal study of entity resolution, data fusion, probabilistic inference, sensitive derived data, surveillance, and the concept of registry-equivalent knowledge.

Research posture

This topic is maintained as a focused knowledge surface. Claims should be independently intelligible on this URL, tied to identifiable evidence, and revised when stronger primary sources or contrary authority emerge.

Connected topics

Human AgencyMeaningful choice, privacy, contestability, refusal, and remedies for people affected by consequential decisions.Distributed IntelligenceOpen-weight models, local inference, personal agents, compute concentration, and the tradeoffs between broad capability access and systemic risk.Law & Constitutional DesignHow constitutional structures, federalism, rights, due process, property, contracts, and institutional checks might adapt to machine intelligence.