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Research papers, reports, and methods.

This is the academic reading layer for the ARC, ARC-Align, and Eden programme: canonical HTML landing pages, visible abstracts, report chronology, and direct links to code, archives, and downloadable PDFs. The book remains the public narrative layer; this section is the stripped-down research surface.

Paper index

Canonical paper catalogue

Every paper has a separate crawlable HTML landing page, visible abstract, direct PDF access, and archive/code links where available.

Paper · 2026-03-13

Paper IV.d: The Effect of Blinding on AI Alignment Evaluation

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Methods paper on blinding, response laundering, and leakage control in AI alignment evaluation, including direction-reversal findings under blinded scoring.

Paper · 2026-03-13

Paper IV.c: ARC-Align Benchmark

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Benchmark paper describing ARC-Align: a depth-aware, suppression-aware, pillar-based AI alignment benchmark with blinding, laundering, and replication-oriented methodology.

Paper · 2026-03-13

Paper IV.a: Architecture-Dependent Alignment Response Classes

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Empirical paper on architecture-dependent alignment response to inference-time depth, presenting positive, flat, and negative response classes under the current ARC-Align results.

Paper · 2026-03-13

Paper IV.b: Alignment Saturation at Low Depth

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Companion analysis of architecture-dependent alignment saturation and shape heterogeneity across inference-time depth in frontier AI systems.

Summary · 2026-03-13

Executive Summary

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High-level summary of the ARC, ARC-Align, and Eden research programme, including the benchmark stack, intervention results, and current claim discipline.

Paper · 2026-02-13

Foundational | The ARC Bound and Revised Scaling Framework

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Foundational paper on the ARC framework, the revised interpretation of the ARC bound, and the current domain-dependent scaling formulation.

Paper · 2026-01-22

Paper II: Experimental Validation

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Experimental paper showing the durable directional result that sequential recursion outperformed parallel sampling under the tested conditions, with later narrowing of the universal exponent claim.

Paper · 2026-02-09

Paper III: White Paper | ARC Bound, Regimes, and Revised Scaling

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White paper on the mature ARC interpretation: architecture-dependent scaling, regime changes, and the ARC bound as the classical fixed-architecture case.

Paper · 2026-02-01

Eden Engineering | Ethics-First AI Architecture Specification

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Engineering paper describing the Eden protocol architecture, alignment loops, and the ethics-first design path for recursive AI systems.

Paper · 2026-02-01

Eden Vision | Ethics-First AI Systems and Public Coordination

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Vision paper on the Eden protocol, long-term ethics-first AI development, and the public-interest case for alignment architecture that begins with care.

Paper · 2026-03-01

Paper V: The Stewardship Gene

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Eden intervention paper on stakeholder care, the Love Loop, and the current three-model pilot evidence for embedded ethical prompting as an alignment mechanism.

Reports

Live and running records

Reports preserve chronology, methods progression, and the running benchmark state alongside the formal papers.

ARC Alignment Scaling Report

Live report

Current ARC-Align running report covering the six-model blind benchmark, scorer architecture, blinding progression, and current alignment-scaling results.