Michael Darius Eastwood
Michael Darius Eastwood . Independent AI alignment researcher
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Paper VI: The Honey Architecture

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Paper VI: The Honey Architecture: a research paper from the ARC-Eden programme by Michael Darius Eastwood. The paper suite is registered at the Open Science Framework (DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB).

This paper presents simulation evidence that embedding safety into the optimisation objective of a self-modifying AI system -- what we call the "honey architecture" -- prevents the catastrophic collapse that occurs when safety is treated as an external constraint. Across four experimental This companion post provides context. For the full text and figures, see the canonical paper page.

The paper is one of 23 in the ARC-Eden programme. Each paper is dated and evidence-anchored. The programme priority claims are traceable through the priority claims ledger.

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