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metacognition
6 MARIA OS blog articles tagged metacognition. Research operations, simulation labs, judgment science, recursive improvement, and experimental AI governance. This canonical topic archive supports search engines and LLM retrieval.
Judgment OS / Decision Intelligence OS
Core MARIA OS research on turning organizational judgment into executable decision systems.
Agentic Company Architecture
Research on human-agent organizations, delegation boundaries, role topology, and governed autonomy.
Responsibility Gates and AI Governance
Safety, accountability, fail-closed gates, auditability, and human-in-the-loop control for AI agents.
Multi-Agent Mathematics
Formal models for convergence, stability, game theory, graph dynamics, and multi-agent evaluation.
Evidence, RAG, and Knowledge Governance
Evidence bundles, retrieval architecture, Graph RAG, knowledge trust, and auditable reasoning pipelines.
Agentic R&D and Judgment Science
Research operations, simulation labs, judgment science, recursive improvement, and experimental AI governance.
Metacognition in Agentic Companies: Why AI Systems Must Know What They Don't Know
Latent governance density, observable metacognitive coverage, and the stability bounds of self-governing enterprises
We formalize an agentic company as a graph-augmented constrained Markov decision process G_t = (A_t, E_t, S_t, Pi_t, R_t, D_t), distinguish latent governance density D_t from observable constrained-candidate coverage D_hat_t on router-generated Top-K actions, and define damping via kappa_t = kappa(D_hat_t). The exact local contraction condition is (1 - kappa_t) lambda_max(W_t) < 1, while the buffered operating envelope lambda_max(W_t) < 1 - kappa_t preserves adaptation headroom. Governance constraints thereby function as organizational metacognition: each constraint is a point where the system observes its own behavior. Planet-100 simulations validate that buffered role specialization emerges in the intermediate governance regime.
Doctor Architecture: Anomaly Detection as Enterprise Metacognition in MARIA OS
Dual-model anomaly detection, threshold engineering, gate integration, and real-time stability monitoring for autonomous agent systems
The Doctor system in MARIA OS implements organizational metacognition through dual-model anomaly detection, combining Isolation Forest for structural outlier detection and an Autoencoder for continuous deviation measurement. We detail the combined score A_combined = alpha * s(x) + (1 - alpha) * sigma(epsilon(x)), threshold design (soft throttle at 0.85, hard freeze at 0.92), and Gate Engine integration for dynamic governance control. We also define a stability guard that monitors exact loop gain g_t = (1 - D_t) lambda_max(A_t) together with the conservative buffer delta_buffer,t = 1 - D_t - lambda_max(A_t) in real time. Operational results show F1 = 0.94, mean detection latency of 2.3 decision cycles, and 99.7% prevention of cascading failures.
Human-AI Co-Evolution as a Coupled Dynamical System: Meta-Cognition Mediated Stability in Nonlinear Agent-Human Interactions
A formal dynamical-systems treatment of human-AI interaction stability and how metacognitive control helps reduce capability decay and trust instability
We model the human-AI interaction loop as a coupled dynamical system `X_t = (H_t, A_t)` and analyze stability under metacognition-mediated control through spectral-radius conditions on the coupled Jacobian. Simulations across 1,000 trajectories report 94.2% trust-band stability and 87.6% capability preservation versus uncontrolled baselines.
Human-AI Co-Evolution as a Constrained Optimal Control Problem: Designing Socially Adaptive Agentic Operating Systems
A rigorous optimal control framework for governing human-AI co-evolution under multi-objective cost functions, partial observability, and hard safety constraints
We reformulate human-AI co-evolution as a constrained optimal-control problem. By defining a multi-objective cost function over task quality, human capability preservation, trust stability, and risk suppression, and solving Bellman-style recursions under hard constraints, we characterize co-evolution policies that Meta Cognition can approximate in MARIA OS. We extend the framework to POMDP settings for partial observability of human cognitive states and derive conditions linked to long-run social stability.
Multi-Agent Societal Co-Evolution Model: Network Trust Dynamics and Phase Transitions in AI-Augmented Organizations
Extending dyadic human-AI co-evolution to societal-scale network dynamics with trust propagation, dependency contagion, phase transitions, and distributed social metacognition
Individual human-AI pair models miss emergent dynamics that appear when many agents interact on complex networks. This paper develops a societal co-evolution framework for trust cascades, dependency contagion, capability hollowing, and phase transitions in AI-augmented organizations, and introduces Social Metacognition as a distributed stabilization mechanism.
Institutional Design for Agentic Societies: Meta-Governance Theory and AI Constitutional Frameworks
From Enterprise Governance to AI Constitutions: How Institutional Economics and Meta-Governance Theory Stabilize Multi-Agent Societies
Multi-agent AI societies require more than individual metacognition: they also require institutional design. This article formalizes agentic-company governance, derives social objective functions for AI-human ecosystems, establishes the Speed Alignment Principle as a stability condition, and presents an AI-constitution model with revision rules. In simulations across 600 runs, adaptive institutional frameworks reduced spectral radius from 1.14 to 0.82 while maintaining audit scores above 0.85.