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Papers, analysis, and commentary on AI governance architecture, independent verification, and the structural gaps the market has not closed.
Universal Participant Identity for the AI-Enabled Economy
Fifteen first-principles requirements that identity must satisfy for autonomous participants operating across organizational and jurisdictional boundaries at machine speed. Covers the full participant set, from software agents and language models to autonomous vehicles, robots, governments, and certified data. Evaluates the current landscape and finds partial coverage of verification requirements and total absence of contract negotiation requirements.
The Intelligent Economy: A Substrate Architecture
Full architectural specification of the four-layer substrate: Identity, Cooperation, Governance, and Settlement. Walks the transition evidence, the incumbent landscape, the sovereignty dimension, and the foundational layers at a depth the companion paper deliberately does not attempt. The technical companion to the policy-level treatment.
Governable AI from the Ground Up: Identity, Cooperation, Governance, and Settlement as Foundational Infrastructure
Policy-level treatment of the substrate architecture. Names the trust problem, shows why it cannot be solved by adding controls to the systems that produce it, describes the four-layer architecture, surveys the existing landscape, and demonstrates the working Governance layer implementation.
The AI Skeptics Are Right, but They're Missing the Point
The autonomous agent economy the largest companies are quietly building, and the one property it cannot open without. A deal each side can prove.