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121 articles · Published by MARIA OS
Designing consent, scope, and export gates that enforce data sovereignty before a single word is stored
When an AI bot joins a meeting, the first question is not 'what was said?' but 'who consented to recording?' This paper formalizes the gate architecture behind MARIA Meeting AI — a system where Consent, Scope, Export, and Speak gates form a fail-closed barrier between raw audio and persistent storage. We derive the gate evaluation algebra, prove that the composition of fail-closed gates preserves the fail-closed property, and show how the Scope gate implements information-theoretic privacy bounds by restricting full transcript access to internal-only meetings. In production deployments, the architecture achieves zero unauthorized data retention while adding less than 3ms latency per gate evaluation.
Formal analysis of decision flow across 111 agents using diffusion equations with fail-closed boundary conditions
We formalize responsibility propagation in Planet 100's 111-agent network using a diffusion framework analogous to heat conduction. Modeling agents as nodes with responsibility capacity and communication channels as conductance edges, we derive a Responsibility Conservation Theorem: total responsibility is conserved across decision-pipeline transitions. We identify bottleneck zones where responsibility accumulates and show how fail-closed gates prevent responsibility gaps with formal guarantees.
Responsibility as a conserved quantity: how to allocate it without leakage
When multiple agents collaborate on one decision, accountability allocation becomes a formal design problem. This paper models responsibility as a conserved continuous resource that must sum to 1.0 per decision. We derive allocation functions that balance agent autonomy with human accountability, analyze fail-closed constraints, and show how gate strength shifts the autonomy-accountability frontier.
How to build a self-improving governance OS through six mathematical research programs, four agent teams, and a Research Universe architecture
Judgment is harder to scale than execution, especially in high-stakes decision environments. This paper presents six research frontiers — from hierarchical speculative pipelines to constrained reinforcement learning — for extending MARIA OS from product operations into governed decision science. We formalize each frontier with mathematical models, design four agent-human hybrid research teams, and introduce the Research Universe: a governance structure where each experiment is evaluated through the same fail-closed gates it studies.
Responsibility decomposition-point control for enterprise AI agents
When an AI agent modifies production code, calls external APIs, or alters contracts, responsibility boundaries must remain explicit. This paper formalizes fail-closed gates as a core architectural primitive for responsibility decomposition in multi-agent systems. We derive gate configurations via constrained optimization and report that a 30/70 human-agent ratio preserved 97.1% responsibility coverage while reducing decision latency by 58%.
Why ethics must be structurally implemented, not merely declared, for responsible AI governance
Ethics declarations without enforcement are insufficient for production governance. This paper presents five mathematical frameworks for converting ethical principles into computable constraint structures in multi-agent systems: constraint formalization, ethical-drift detection, multi-universe conflict mapping, human-oversight calibration, and ethics-sandbox simulation before deployment. Together, these components define an Agentic Ethics Lab model for structurally implementing responsible AI.
Modeling the enterprise as a responsibility topology across human-agent decision nodes
This paper explores corporate design where the primary unit is the decision node and its responsibility allocation, not only role or department labels. It introduces five linked research programs that model the enterprise as a weighted directed responsibility graph whose topology evolves through conflict-driven learning. We formalize human-agent responsibility matrices, derive scalable topology conditions, define health metrics for hybrid organizations, and model governance as a self-evolving decision graph with gate-managed policy transitions.
Why investment decisions require conflict management across multiple evaluation universes, not single-score optimization
Traditional investment analysis often compresses multidimensional evaluation into a single score (for example NPV or IRR), which can hide cross-domain conflicts. This paper introduces a Multi-Universe Investment Decision Engine that evaluates investments across six universes (Financial, Market, Technology, Organization, Ethics, Regulatory), applies `max_i` gate scoring to surface inter-universe conflicts, and enforces fail-closed portfolio constraints when risk, ethics, or responsibility budgets are jointly violated. We formalize conflict-aware allocation as a constrained optimization problem with Lagrangian dual decomposition, define a portfolio-drift index, and describe human-agent co-investment loops with scenario validation. Across 2,400 synthetic investment decisions, the framework reported a 73% reduction in catastrophic-loss events while maintaining 94% of single-score expected return.
Extending fail-closed responsibility gates from digital agents to physical-world robotic systems
Physical-world robots operate under hard real-time constraints where fail-closed gates must halt actuators within milliseconds. This paper introduces a multi-universe evaluation architecture for robotic decision systems across Safety, Regulatory, Efficiency, Ethics, and Human Comfort universes. We analyze how responsibility-bounded judgment can be maintained under latency constraints, sensor noise, and embodied ethical drift, and describe components including a Robot Gate Engine, real-time conflict heatmap, ethics-calibration model, responsibility protocol, and a layered architecture bridging MARIA OS with ROS2.
A control-theoretic framework for gate design where smarter AI needs smarter stopping, not simply more stopping
Enterprise governance often assumes that more gates automatically mean more safety. This paper analyzes why that assumption can fail. We model gates as delayed binary controllers with feedback loops and derive stability conditions: serial delay should remain within the decision-relevance window, and feedback-loop gain should satisfy `kK < 1` to avoid over-correction oscillation. Safety is therefore not monotonic in gate count; it depends on delay-budget management, loop-gain control, and bounded recovery cycles.
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