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121 articles · Published by MARIA OS
A Mathematical Framework for Value-Preserving Goal Execution
Local goal optimization often conflicts with organizational Mission. We formalize this conflict as a constrained optimization problem over a 7-dimensional Mission Value Vector, derive the alignment score and penalty-based objective, and present a three-stage decision gate architecture that prevents value erosion while preserving goal-seeking performance.
Does Evolutionary Pressure Reduce Organizations to Pure Survival Machines? A Mathematical Analysis of Directed vs. Undirected Evolution
When organizations are modeled as evolutionary subjects, does the theoretical limit reduce to survival-probability maximization? This paper examines two regimes — unconstrained local optimization (λ→0) where ethics and culture are mere byproducts, and Mission-constrained optimization where evolution gains direction. We derive the survival-alignment tradeoff curve S = S₀·exp(−αD), prove Lyapunov stability of Mission erosion dynamics under dual-variable feedback control, present 7-dimensional phase diagrams for operational monitoring, and demonstrate a civilization-type phase transition where accumulated institutional improvements qualitatively change the system's risk profile.
Governance density as organizational self-awareness, a spectral stability condition, and the mathematical foundations of enterprise metacognition
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) and define operational governance density over router-generated Top-K candidate actions, making D_t directly measurable from logs at each step. We derive a practical stability condition on the damped influence matrix W_eff,t = (1 - kappa(D_t)) W_t, yielding (1 - kappa(D_t)) lambda_max(W_t) < 1. We then show that governance constraints act as organizational metacognition: each constraint is a point where the system observes its own behavior. This frames metacognition not as overhead, but as the control parameter that determines whether an agentic company self-organizes stably or diverges. Planet-100 simulations validate that stable role specialization emerges in the intermediate governance regime.
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.
An operational architecture for detecting non-stationarity, throttling unsafe adaptation, and restoring decision quality under drift
This article outlines change-point detection, bounded policy updates, and fail-closed escalation for distribution-shift governance.
Estimate intervention value before handoff to reduce unsafe approvals and unnecessary escalations
Escalation is triggered when estimated causal benefit exceeds review cost, not by confidence alone.
Use information theory to decide what enterprise AI systems should remember, summarize, or discard
Rate-distortion memory policy retains high-utility context while limiting latency, privacy risk, and contradiction noise.
Defense framework for prompt injection, feedback poisoning, and policy-hijack attacks in self-improving loops
Layered provenance checks, anomaly scoring, and quarantine rules harden adaptive loops while preserving auditability.
From correlation-heavy dashboards to intervention-level attribution in meta-insight governance systems
Causal OLR decomposition attributes observed learning-rate gains to specific interventions, improving budget and policy allocation decisions.
A deep research framework for path-specific accountability, time-aware causality, and audit-grade explanation in enterprise AI
A temporal responsibility graph enables path-level causal attribution and faster, more reproducible root-cause analysis.
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