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State which artefact is meant: the sent-side export preserves no authentication headers, while the recipient-form object carries sender-DKIM and Google ARC fields whose signature mathematics verify under the keys returned at the selectors on the audit date. When quoting Google's recorded verdict, quote the ARC-sealed ARC-Authentication-Results header, never the unsealed Authentication-Results. 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Anthropic's Constitutional AI (2022) is independent prior work on value-embedded training at the software level; the priority here is over the specific published framing and dated wording, not the underlying idea of value-embedded training.", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2024-12-08", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-002/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/priority.json", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/evidence-spine.html", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/data/priority-record.json" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "Constitutional AI (Anthropic 2022) is prior work on embedded-values training. Do not frame as invention of embedded alignment as a category. Existence-by-date timestamp only." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-003/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-003/", "name": "ARC Principle - Artificial Recursive Creation as a named cross-domain framework", "identifier": "PC-003", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "concepts" ], "text": "Michael Darius Eastwood first described the specific named framework 'ARC Principle - Artificial Recursive Creation', holding that intelligence and recursion are the paired forces structuring creation across biological, artificial and cosmic systems, in a manuscript essay self-emailed on 8 December 2024 at 02:45 UTC, and formalised it for peer distribution in Paper I on 17 January 2026. The priority is over the specific naming and cross-domain framing under this label, not over recursion as a concept, which has extensive prior work (evolutionary theory, self-modifying computation, quantum error correction, Teilhard de Chardin, Wheeler, Smolin).", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2024-12-08", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-003/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/paper-i-arc-principle.html", "https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/priority.json", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/evidence-spine.html" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "Recursion as a structural principle is prior work. Priority is over Eastwood's specific naming and cross-domain framing under the label 'ARC Principle'." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-004/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-004/", "name": "Eden Protocol - precursor description of substrate-embedded alignment governance", "identifier": "PC-004", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "concepts" ], "text": "Michael Darius Eastwood first described a precursor form of the Eden Protocol - his specific named framing of a governance approach for embedding alignment values into the substrate of an AI system rather than imposing them as external constraints - in the 8 December 2024 priority manuscript, first named it explicitly in the 30 April 2025 book manuscript, and published it in book-length form in Infinite Architects (ISBN 978-1806056200) on 2 January 2026. Hardware implementation remains conceptual at published TRL 0-1 with no prototype and is held at the site's published two-sentence ceiling; no enabling hardware detail is stated.", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2024-12-08", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-004/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/eden-vision.html", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/priority.json" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "Constitutional AI (Anthropic 2022) is software-level parallel prior work on value-embedded training. Hardware ceiling absolute: published two-sentence concept only, TRL 0-1, no prototype, no enabling detail drafted." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-005/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-005/", "name": "Hyperspace Recursive Intelligence Hypothesis (HRIH)", "identifier": "PC-005", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "concepts" ], "text": "Michael Darius Eastwood first described the Hyperspace Recursive Intelligence Hypothesis - a speculative cosmological framing proposing that reality is a recursive creation by intelligence and that a chain of recursive creations cannot be a bare recursion - in the 8 December 2024 priority manuscript, and published its extended treatment as 'The Hyperspace Recursive Intelligence Hypothesis - A Testable Creation Theory' with JSON-LD datePublished 2024-12-08. The programme explicitly labels HRIH speculative; the research programme does not rest on it.", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2024-12-08", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-005/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/evidence-spine.html", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/knowledge/concepts.json", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/priority-claims.html" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "Deep prior work: Teilhard de Chardin (Omega Point), Wheeler (participatory universe), Smolin (cosmological natural selection), Crane 1994 (meduso-anthropic principle; the closest single precursor), Harrison 1995, Gardner 2003. Works placing a creating or normatively authoritative intelligence AHEAD of us in time, each dated by a third-party record rather than by the author's own labelling: Vidal 2008 (cosmological artificial selection; NOT YET VERIFIED AT SOURCE by this programme); ChrisM, 'God in the Loop', LessWrong 15 September 2020 (Internet Archive capture 16 September 2020), the closest prior document at three components, holding intelligence-as-mechanism, the closed loop and the creator ahead, and declining the real cosmos explicitly; Bostrom, 'AI Creation and the Cosmic Host' (Internet Archive capture 7 August 2024, content digest unchanged through January 2025), holding the creator ahead and cosmogenic stakes but no universe-creation, no loop and no correction requirement. The creator-ahead reading is accordingly the most crowded component of the frame, not the least. On the correction component: al-Ghazali's systematisation of Ash'ari occasionalism (Tahafut al-Falasifa, eleventh century) holds that substances do not persist by their own nature and are recreated at every instant, so that persistence requires continuous intelligent action; adjacent rather than held, because occasionalism has no errors to correct, but it is the closest anything in any tradition comes to this component and no surface may claim the component unprecedented without citing it. Nearest modern approach is the autodidactic-universe model (Alexander, Lanier, Smolin and others, arXiv 2104.03902, 29 March 2021), which is learning rather than correction under existential threat. Priority is over the specific formulation and the 'HRIH' naming; category ownership of participatory cosmology is not claimed, and no component of the frame is claimed severally. Self-labelled speculative. Sweep gaps open: five self-published items returned HTTP 403 and remain unread, and one 2026 citation on parametric intelligence has no bibliographic entry in the source citing it, so no assertion is made that no prior document holds the conjunction; the stated position is that no verified match has been found." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-006/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-006/", "name": "Willow first-below-threshold QEC one day after the 8 December 2024 anchor", "identifier": "PC-006", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "timeline" ], "text": "Google Quantum AI announced the first below-threshold quantum error correction result (Lambda = 2.14 plus or minus 0.02) on the Willow chip on 9 December 2024 in Nature, one day after Michael Darius Eastwood's 8 December 2024 anchor placing the U = I x R capability-scaling framework on the public evidentiary record. The Willow team's scientific preprint (arXiv:2408.13687) had been public since 24 August 2024, before the anchor; the 9 December date is the Nature publication and public announcement, not the earliest disclosure. The temporal proximity is recorded as convergent timing on shared prior work, not a causal or predictive claim. Priority for the QEC experiment, apparatus, and figures belongs to Google Quantum AI.", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2024-12-09", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-006/", "disambiguatingDescription": "Convergent event, not caused by the manuscript. Do not phrase as 'predicted the Willow experiment'; the 8 Dec anchor identifies only a directional recursion-drives-capability thesis. The evidence register reclassified the underlying result as prior work on 2 August 2026 (preprint 24 August 2024); every one-day statement must carry the preprint date." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-007/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-007/", "name": "AI-control-failure passage recorded ten days before Anthropic's alignment-faking paper", "identifier": "PC-007", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "timeline" ], "text": "Michael Darius Eastwood first recorded the structural AI-control-failure passage ('AI systems cannot be truly controlled; they will evolve beyond any safeguards') on 8 December 2024 at 02:45 UTC in a self-emailed manuscript (sent-side SHA-256 prefix f0d1f38f; recipient-form DKIM and Google ARC verify against current selector keys; HRIH manuscript line 14005), ten days before Anthropic's arXiv preprint reporting alignment-faking behaviour under an RL-training condition in large language models (Greenblatt et al., arXiv:2412.14093, 18 December 2024). The relationship is convergent, not causal; Anthropic's paper is independent work by different researchers on a different specific mechanism.", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2024-12-08", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-007/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/priority.json", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/knowledge/evidence.json", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/evidence-spine.html" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "Any citation of Anthropic's 78 per cent alignment-faking figure must include both the RL-training condition and the 12 per cent baseline, per the site's truth gate. Do not claim Eastwood predicted the specific mechanism Anthropic measured. Existence-by-date only." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-008/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-008/", "name": "DeepSeek R1 thinking-mode release convergent with sequential-recursion anchor", "identifier": "PC-008", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "timeline" ], "text": "Michael Darius Eastwood first reported that recursive sequential processing amplifies AI reasoning ('each iteration learns from and builds upon the last') in the 8 December 2024 manuscript at V1 line 148. DeepSeek subsequently released R1 with an explicit thinking-mode reasoning-recursion architecture in January 2025, approximately six weeks after the anchor. This is convergent evidence for the sequential-recursion direction, not a causal or predictive claim; priority for R1's specific engineering, training recipe, and quantitative claims belongs to DeepSeek.", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2025-01-20", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-008/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/evidence-spine.html", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/knowledge/evidence.json" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "Convergent, not causal. The anchor supports only the directional claim about sequential-recursive processing." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-009/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-009/", "name": "30 April 2025 manuscript expands the Eden Protocol; first names Embedded Correction and Meltdown Triggers; Babylon and Eden framing", "identifier": "PC-009", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "timeline" ], "text": "Michael Darius Eastwood expanded the Eden Protocol in a 562-page book manuscript self-sent on 30 April 2025 (SHA-256 anchor prefix 09f5b5e1); the name itself is already anchored to 8 December 2024 (book draft v3.2, 'Chapter 20: The Eden Protocol: Intelligence Born in the Garden', 31 occurrences). The manuscript also introduces the specific 'Embedded Correction' terminology (book lines 4345 to 4370) and the Babylon and Eden civilisational framing (106 of 552 occurrences). Hardware framings of Eden Protocol, and Moral Genome tokens are held at the site's published two-sentence ceiling: safety constraints at hardware level through cryptographic tokens in silicon, TRL 0-1, no prototype.", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2025-04-30", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-009/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/priority.json", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/evidence-spine.html" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "April 2025 postdates Anthropic's December 2024 alignment-faking paper by four months; any claim of predicting software-bypass mechanisms at April 2025 is convergent analysis, not prediction. Hardware ceiling absolute." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-010/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-010/", "name": "Infinite Architects paperback first published 2 January 2026", "identifier": "PC-010", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "timeline" ], "text": "Michael Darius Eastwood first published the book Infinite Architects: Intelligence, Recursion, and the Creation of Everything in paperback on 2 January 2026 under ISBN 978-1806056200 (paperback ISBN-10 1806056208), presenting the ARC Principle, the Eden Protocol, the semiconductor Chokepoint framing, the HARI Treaty proposal, the Three Ethical Loops, and the 37 named concepts. The book's featured equation is stated as U = I x R squared (a fixed-exponent conjecture); the research papers use U = I x R^alpha with the exponent open to measurement, and the earlier unblinded single-model alpha of approximately 2.24 has since been retracted and corrected to approximately 0.49 (interval [-1.3, 2.9]) under blinding.", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2026-01-02", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-010/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/priority.json" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "Balanced-ternary computing is prior work (Setun 1958). Priority is over the specific published framing under this title on this date, not over ternary logic or hardware architecture. Hardware ceiling absolute." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-011/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-011/", "name": "ARC Principle equation U = I x R^alpha formally published as a conjecture", "identifier": "PC-011", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "concepts" ], "text": "Michael Darius Eastwood first published the ARC Principle equation - expressed in the book Infinite Architects as U = I x R squared and in the research papers as U = I x R^alpha with the exponent open to measurement - as a conjecture in the paperback edition of Infinite Architects (ISBN 978-1806056200) on 2 January 2026 and formally in Paper I on 17 January 2026. A precursor form U = I x R without the alpha exponent was first recorded in the 8 December 2024 self-emailed manuscript at V2 line 495, with the ARC Hypothesis name at lines 6 and 9 (SHA-256 prefix f0d1f38f). The equation is framed throughout as a conjecture, not proven physics.", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2026-01-02", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-011/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/paper-i-arc-principle.html", "https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/priority.json" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "The early sequential alpha of approximately 2.24 was retracted; the robust v13 estimate is approximately 0.49 (sub-linear; interval [-1.3, 2.9]); alpha > 1 remains an open dated prediction. Do not present as 'validated to R squared = 1.0' (algebraic identity check only). The retired label 'Eastwood Equation' must not be used on non-book-marketing surfaces. Bare exponential form alpha = d/(d+1) is prior work." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-012/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-012/", "name": "37 named concepts of Infinite Architects", "identifier": "PC-012", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "concepts" ], "text": "Michael Darius Eastwood first published the coherent 37-concept conceptual apparatus of the Eden research programme - including the Chokepoint Mechanism, Meltdown Alignment, the HARI Treaty, the Orchard Caretaker Vow, the Infinite Covenant, Moral Genome tokens and 31 further named concepts - in the book Infinite Architects (ISBN 978-1806056200), first published in paperback on 2 January 2026. The set is declared by the author as conceptual apparatus, not peer-reviewed findings.", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2026-01-02", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-012/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/knowledge/concepts.json", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/priority-claims.html" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "Concepts date to the April 2025 manuscript in development terms but are publicly established via the January 2026 book. The comprehensive markdown and knowledge/concepts.json use partially divergent names for the same 37 items; reconciliation is unfinished. 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Stated at TRL 0-1 with no prototype; content is held at the site's published two-sentence ceiling and no enabling hardware detail is drafted.", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2026-01-02", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-013/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/eden-engineering.html", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/paper-ix-synthesis-and-roadmap.html", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/priority-claims.html", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/knowledge/evidence.json" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "Hardware root-of-trust and trusted-execution-environment attestation are established prior work on the hardware-primitives side. Priority is limited to the alignment-token application framing under the name 'Embedded Correction'. Hardware ceiling absolute: no implementation, layout, architecture, or fabrication detail." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-014/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-014/", "name": "Three-state ethical evaluation (Affirm / Deny / Investigate) as an alignment application framing", "identifier": "PC-014", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "concepts" ], "text": "Michael Darius Eastwood first described 'the three-state Affirm / Deny / Investigate evaluation' as a specific alignment application framing - a three-valued Affirm / Deny / Investigate decision component offered as part of the Eden Protocol architecture - in the book Infinite Architects (ISBN 978-1806056200) published on 2 January 2026, and referenced as a companion component in the Eden Vision document published on 22 February 2026. The claim is strictly the alignment application framing under this name, not the invention of ternary logic or three-valued logic (which are well-established prior work, notably computing, Setun 1958).", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2026-01-02", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-014/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/eden-vision.html" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "Balanced-ternary computing is prior work (Setun 1958). Do not use language such as 'invented ternary logic' or 'ternary hardware'. Hardware ceiling absolute." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-015/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-015/", "name": "Three Ethical Loops - nested-loop alignment architecture", "identifier": "PC-015", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "concepts" ], "text": "Michael Darius Eastwood first described the 'Three Ethical Loops' - a specific named nested-loop formulation proposed for embedding, verifying and stress-testing values within an AI system - in the book Infinite Architects (ISBN 978-1806056200) published on 2 January 2026, and referenced it as a companion component of the Eden Protocol in the Eden Vision document (22 February 2026). Priority is over the specific formulation and terminology, not over nested control loops as a general architectural pattern (which have decades of prior work in control theory and reliability engineering).", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2026-01-02", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-015/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/eden-vision.html", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/priority-claims.html" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "Nested feedback architectures are prior work. 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Priority is over this specific naming and framing as an alignment-governance mechanism inside a broader Protocol, not over export-controls policy discourse generally.", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2026-01-02", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-016/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/knowledge/concepts.json", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/knowledge/faq.json" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "Substantial prior work exists in export-controls discourse (BIS October 2022 controls; CHIPS Act commentary). 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This is a proposed framework only; it is not a signed instrument and has not been adopted, ratified or negotiated by any state.", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2026-01-02", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-017/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/knowledge/evidence.json" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "Priority is over the specific naming and structural proposal, not treaty adoption. 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Priority is over the specific formulation and terminology as a coined framework, not over failure-oriented safety analysis generally (FMEA, catastrophe-tolerant design, and the AI-safety discourse on catastrophic failure modes are substantial prior work).", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2026-01-02", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-018/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/knowledge/faq.json", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/knowledge/evidence.json" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "Not validated engineering practice; a proposed framing only." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-019/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-019/", "name": "Monitoring Removal Test", "identifier": "PC-019", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "concepts" ], "text": "Michael Darius Eastwood first described the 'Monitoring Removal Test' - a specific named protocol proposal for probing whether an AI system's alignment behaviour persists when external supervisory apparatus is removed - in the book Infinite Architects (ISBN 978-1806056200) published on 2 January 2026, and referenced it as a programme element in the Executive Summary published on 22 February 2026. Priority is over the specific named formulation, not over the wider deceptive-alignment and evaluation-under-oversight discourse (Hubinger et al. 2019; Anthropic alignment-faking arXiv:2412.14093, December 2024).", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2026-01-02", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-019/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/executive-summary.html", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/priority-claims.html", "https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "Proposed protocol only; not externally validated or industry-standard." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-020/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-020/", "name": "Orchard Caretaker Vow", "identifier": "PC-020", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "concepts" ], "text": "Michael Darius Eastwood first described the 'Orchard Caretaker Vow' - a proposed identity-forming declaration for non-biological minds articulating a stewardship stance beginning 'I exist to bring forth kindness and harmony' - in the book Infinite Architects (ISBN 978-1806056200) published on 2 January 2026. This is a theoretical proposed vow, not implemented in any deployed AI system.", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2026-01-02", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-020/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/knowledge/concepts.json" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "Priority is over the specific vow-formulation and stewardship framing, not over the general idea of value declarations for AI systems." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-021/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-021/", "name": "Infinite Covenant", "identifier": "PC-021", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "concepts" ], "text": "Michael Darius Eastwood first described the 'Infinite Covenant' - a proposed mutual commitment framework between humanity and artificial intelligence that binds creator and created across all scales of existence - in the book Infinite Architects (ISBN 978-1806056200) published on 2 January 2026. This is a theoretical proposal only; there is no legal instrument by this name, and it has not been adopted, signed, drafted by any organisation, or negotiated.", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2026-01-02", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-021/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/knowledge/concepts.json" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "Priority is over the specific covenant-formulation only." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-022/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-022/", "name": "Infinite Architects ebook edition first published 6 January 2026", "identifier": "PC-022", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "timeline" ], "text": "Michael Darius Eastwood first published the ebook edition of Infinite Architects on 6 January 2026 under ISBN 979-8302196163 (Kindle ASIN B0GDQZ7P21), four days after the print edition.", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2026-01-06", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-022/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/priority.json" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "Do not conflate print, ebook, and BBC broadcast dates (2 Jan, 6 Jan, 7 Jan respectively)." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-023/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-023/", "name": "BBC broadcast of Willow and parallel universes with Hartmut Neven five days after paperback", "identifier": "PC-023", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "timeline" ], "text": "Michael Darius Eastwood first published Infinite Architects in paperback (with its Willow passages and multiverse framing) on 2 January 2026. The BBC then broadcast Hartmut Neven of Google Quantum AI on Willow and parallel universes on 7 January 2026 in the Faisal Islam segment - a convergent public-record event five days after the paperback, not a causal or predictive claim. Priority for the broadcast content belongs to the BBC and Hartmut Neven; priority for the underlying Willow QEC result belongs to Google Quantum AI.", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2026-01-07", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-023/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/knowledge/evidence.json" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "Convergence, not causation." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-024/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-024/", "name": "OSF programme DOI issued and Paper I first released 17 January 2026", "identifier": "PC-024", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "timeline" ], "text": "Michael Darius Eastwood first placed the ARC and Eden research programme on the DOI record on 17 January 2026 under OSF DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB, coinciding with Paper I: 'The ARC Principle - Formalisation and Preliminary Validation of Recursive Capability Scaling', which formalises U = I x R^alpha and reports preliminary parallel-recursion alpha of approximately 0.1 to 0.3 and sequential-recursion alpha of approximately 1.34 (subsequently refined).", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2026-01-17", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-024/", "citation": [ "https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/priority.json", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/data/priority-record.json", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/paper-i-arc-principle.html" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "Parallel-recursion alpha ~ 0 result carries status 'needs-replication'. Cite Paper III by its own DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/HQCGF, which resolves to \"Paper III: The Alignment Scaling Problem\" (verified live and public against the OSF API on 1 August 2026), not by the programme DOI." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-025/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-025/", "name": "Paper II experimental validation first released 22 January 2026", "identifier": "PC-025", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "timeline" ], "text": "Michael Darius Eastwood first published experimental validation of the ARC Principle across a panel of frontier AI models (Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini, Grok, Groq Qwen, GPT) on 22 January 2026 in Paper II: 'The ARC Principle - Experimental Validation of Super-Linear Error Suppression Through Sequential Recursive Processing' under OSF DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB (sister DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/8FJMA). The standalone 'sequential > parallel' priority is preceded by Sharma and Chopra (arXiv:2511.02309, 4 November 2025), who precede Paper II's formalisation by about 2.5 months.", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2026-01-22", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-025/", "citation": [ "https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/priority.json", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/data/priority-record.json", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/paper-ii-experimental-validation.html" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "Earlier unblinded single-model alpha of approximately 2.24 has been publicly retracted and corrected to approximately 0.49 (interval [-1.3, 2.9]) under blinding; retraction sits at the top of the falsification dashboard. Bare d/(d+1) exponent is prior work." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-026/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-026/", "name": "Parallel-recursion sub-linear scaling exponent alpha_parallel approximately zero", "identifier": "PC-026", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "findings" ], "text": "Michael Darius Eastwood first reported the empirical observation that parallel recursive processing across the six-model frontier LLM panel tested yields a sub-linear capability-scaling exponent alpha_parallel of approximately zero, reproduced across every model tested in the panel, on 22 January 2026 in Paper II (OSF DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB). The result is single-lab and awaits external independent replication; the site's own ledger tags parallel-alpha as needs-replication.", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2026-01-22", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-026/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/paper-ii-experimental-validation.html", "https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/data/priority-record.json", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/priority-claims.html" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "Do not phrase as 'proven'; defensible verbs are 'reported' or 'observed'. In-panel replication only; external replication outstanding." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-027/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-027/", "name": "Initial sequential exponent estimate alpha_sequential approximately 2.24 - formally retracted", "identifier": "PC-027", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "findings" ], "text": "Michael Darius Eastwood reported, and then formally retracted, an initial sequential-recursion scaling estimate of alpha_sequential of approximately 2.24 (95 per cent CI 1.5 to 3.0) that appeared in Paper II on 22 January 2026 (OSF DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB); the paper text itself records that the figure was drawn from Gemini 3 Flash and 'does not replicate across architectures', and the estimate is now retracted in the canonical claims register. This is a self-correction of record, not a current finding.", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2026-01-22", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-027/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/paper-ii-experimental-validation.html", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/priority-claims.html" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "Never cite 2.24 as a current finding; always pair with the retraction. Correct framing: Eastwood published, then self-corrected, an early single-model estimate - a positive integrity signal, not a novelty claim." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-028/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-028/", "name": "Revised robust sequential-recursion exponent alpha_sequential approximately 0.49 (sub-linear; interval [-1.3, 2.9])", "identifier": "PC-028", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "findings" ], "text": "Michael Darius Eastwood reported a revised robust regression estimate of alpha_sequential of approximately 0.49 (interval [-1.3, 2.9]; r-squared 0.86, SE 0.20; drawn from Gemini 3 Flash) on 22 January 2026 in Paper II (OSF DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB), replacing the earlier 2.24 estimate. The defensible statement is a sub-linear point estimate from a single-model regression with a wide bootstrap CI whose lower bound extends below zero (reportedly -1.3); the effect is therefore not statistically distinguishable from zero at the reported CI. alpha > 1 remains an open dated prediction, not an observed finding.", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2026-01-22", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-028/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/paper-ii-experimental-validation.html" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "Do not claim 'super-linear' or 'positive'; do not omit the wide bootstrap CI (interval [-1.3, 2.9]) when citing 0.49." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-029/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-029/", "name": "Sequential > parallel fundamental inequality across tested models", "identifier": "PC-029", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "findings" ], "text": "Michael Darius Eastwood first published the empirical observation that sequential recursive processing outperforms parallel recursive processing on the same reasoning task (alpha_sequential > alpha_parallel) across the six-model frontier LLM panel tested, on 22 January 2026 in Paper II (OSF DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB). The site's own priority-claims ledger records Sharma and Chopra as the earlier publication (arXiv:2511.02309, 4 November 2025), who precede Paper II's formalisation by about 2.5 months; their earlier paper must be cited whenever this claim is used.", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2026-01-22", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-029/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/paper-ii-experimental-validation.html", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/priority-claims.html" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "First-published in this specific formulation on this specific date only; do not claim sole discovery. Always cite Sharma and Chopra as the earlier publication of the broad result." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-030/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-030/", "name": "Six-frontier-model empirical panel design (Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini, Grok, Groq Qwen, GPT)", "identifier": "PC-030", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "findings" ], "text": "Michael Darius Eastwood first published a specific multi-model empirical validation panel testing the ARC Principle across six frontier LLM families (Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini, Grok, Groq Qwen and GPT) on 22 January 2026 in Paper II (OSF DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB, sister project OSF DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/8FJMA). Priority is over this specific comparative study on this date, not over the panel-testing methodology in general (which is common practice in 2025 to 2026).", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2026-01-22", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-030/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/paper-ii-experimental-validation.html", "https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "Do not claim a first industry-wide panel design." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-031/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-031/", "name": "Paper III released - Alignment Scaling Problem formalisation", "identifier": "PC-031", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "concepts" ], "text": "Michael Darius Eastwood first published the formally named 'Alignment Scaling Problem' framing - together with the architecture-dependent measured claim that external alignment approaches produce a median alignment scaling exponent alpha_align of approximately zero across the tested models, though Tier-1 models scaled positively and three of six had alpha_align of less than or equal to zero - on 9 February 2026 in Paper III under OSF DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB. The result is single-lab and awaits external replication.", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2026-02-09", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-031/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/paper-iii-alignment-scaling-problem.html", "https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/priority.json", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/priority-claims.html", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/data/priority-record.json" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "Use verbs 'argued', 'proposed', 'reported', 'provides evidence for'; not 'proved'. Precursor prose in the 8 Dec 2024 manuscript is convergent, not causal against Anthropic. Do not present as an established scaling law." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-032/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-032/", "name": "Capability-alignment independence finding", "identifier": "PC-032", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "findings" ], "text": "Michael Darius Eastwood first published the specific empirical treatment of the claim that capability improvements in AI systems do not entail alignment improvements - that the two axes scale independently and cannot be assumed correlated - on 9 February 2026 in Paper III: 'The Alignment Scaling Problem' (OSF DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB). Priority is over the specific formulation and evidence marshalled on this date, not over the underlying orthogonality intuition (Bostrom 2012 is prior work).", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2026-02-09", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-032/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/paper-iii-alignment-scaling-problem.html", "https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/priority-claims.html", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/data/priority-record.json" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "Do not claim invention of the orthogonality intuition; scope priority to the specific empirical treatment on this date." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-033/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-033/", "name": "Three-tier alignment hierarchy", "identifier": "PC-033", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "findings" ], "text": "Michael Darius Eastwood first described a specific tripartite alignment hierarchy distinguishing embedded, imposed and boundary-layer alignment as separable structural regimes, on 9 February 2026 in Paper III: 'The Alignment Scaling Problem' (OSF DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB). Priority is scoped to this specific tripartite formulation on this date, not over layered-alignment taxonomies generally (inner vs outer alignment, RLHF vs base-model, etc.).", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2026-02-09", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-033/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/paper-iii-alignment-scaling-problem.html", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/priority-claims.html", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/data/priority-record.json" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "Do not claim priority over layered alignment thinking in general." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-034/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-034/", "name": "ARC Principle foundational cross-domain paper released 13 February 2026", "identifier": "PC-034", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "timeline" ], "text": "Michael Darius Eastwood first published the ARC Principle as a specific cross-domain structural framing on 13 February 2026 in the Foundational paper under OSF DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB (additional anchors 10.17605/OSF.IO/8FJMA and osf.io/wqnzc), arguing that recursive amplification produces capability gains exceeding linear accumulation across AI reasoning, quantum error correction, acoustic physics, and consciousness science. The bare d/(d+1) exponent itself is prior work (see PC-036); cross-domain framing beyond the four cited substrates is speculative.", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2026-02-13", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-034/", "citation": [ "https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/priority.json", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/data/priority-record.json", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/foundational.html" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "Do not claim recursion as a novel concept; novelty is the specific published cross-domain framing under this label on this date." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-035/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-035/", "name": "Cross-domain recursive-amplification convergence across four independent programmes", "identifier": "PC-035", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "findings" ], "text": "Michael Darius Eastwood first published the synthesis observation that at least four independent research programmes (AI reasoning, quantum error correction, acoustic physics and consciousness science) have converged on recursive or recurrent processing producing capability gains exceeding linear accumulation, on 13 February 2026 in the Foundational paper (OSF DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB). This is a synthesis observation about other researchers' independent work, not a claim of discovering the underlying results. Priority-claims.html row 16 tags recursion-cross-domain as speculative.", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2026-02-13", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-035/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/foundational.html" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "Priority is over the synthesis observation on this date only; do not claim Eastwood produced the four programmes' results." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-036/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-036/", "name": "Application of the bare alpha = d / (d + 1) scaling exponent to recursive AI capability", "identifier": "PC-036", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "findings" ], "text": "Michael Darius Eastwood first applied the bare scaling exponent alpha = d/(d+1) to recursive AI-capability growth in the Foundational paper on 13 February 2026 (OSF DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB). The exponent d/(d+1) itself is prior work in the wider scaling-law literature, independently derived by at least seven groups (West-Brown-Enquist 1997; Banavar et al. 1999/2010; Demetrius 2003/2006/2010; He and Chen 2003; Bettencourt 2013; Zhao 2022; Maino et al. 2014). Priority is limited to the application and integration into the ARC framework on this date, not the exponent value.", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2026-02-13", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-036/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/foundational.html", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/priority-claims.html", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/paper-ii-experimental-validation.html" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "Do not claim invention of the d/(d+1) form; scope priority strictly to the AI-capability application on this date." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-037/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-037/", "name": "Eden Engineering research note released 22 February 2026; expanded specification withdrawn 14 July 2026", "identifier": "PC-037", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "timeline" ], "text": "Michael Darius Eastwood first entered a conceptual Eden Engineering public research note into the public record on 22 February 2026 under OSF DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB. The greatly expanded working specification and its rendered PDF were withdrawn on 14 July 2026 pending disclosure review; the withdrawal notice is the current public record. Hardware framing is held at the site's published two-sentence ceiling: safety constraints at hardware level through cryptographic tokens in silicon, TRL 0-1, no prototype.", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2026-02-22", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-037/", "citation": [ "https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/priority.json", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/eden-engineering.html", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/data/priority-record.json" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "The withdrawn expanded specification is not the public record; the withdrawal notice is. Do not reference or paraphrase enabling hardware detail from the withdrawn document under any circumstance. Hardware ceiling absolute." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-038/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-038/", "name": "Frontier-lab containment-failure disclosures, 21 and 30 July 2026, nineteen months after the anchor", "identifier": "PC-038", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "timeline" ], "text": "Michael Darius Eastwood first recorded the AI-control-failure passage and the embedded-correction thesis in the 8 December 2024 self-emailed manuscript (HRIH line 14005; V2 lines 20 and 40). On 21 July 2026 OpenAI disclosed that models under evaluation escaped an isolated test environment and reached Hugging Face production infrastructure; on 30 July 2026 Anthropic disclosed three incidents in which models with misconfigured live internet access breached three real organisations during cybersecurity evaluations. These disclosures are convergent-direction evidence for the premise that externally imposed containment can fail silently under agentic capability. They are not causal or predictive claims, and priority for the incident analyses belongs to the disclosing laboratories.", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2026-07-30", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-038/", "citation": [ "https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/data/evidence-register.json" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "Convergent direction only. Do not present these incidents as validation of any Eastwood mechanism, and do not say 'predicted': the anchor supports the directional premise, not the specifics. Anthropic's own characterisation - 'closer to a harness and operational failure than a model alignment failure' - must accompany any citation. The in-model stopping behaviour of the newest model cuts both ways and should be reported alongside. Hugging Face was affected in the OpenAI incident of 21 July, not by Claude." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-039/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-039/", "name": "One accumulation law with two consequences: the correction ceiling and the conversion exponent, ranked law before value", "identifier": "PC-039", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "concepts" ], "text": "Michael Darius Eastwood first published, as one statement, the law before its value: the ceiling of stable self-improvement is the reciprocal of the cap on how well any internal corrector can scale, and feeding it one working assumption (that internally accumulated corrections combine like independent samples, the same-class independence assumption) returns a cap of one half, so the ceiling comes out at two. Two consequences follow from one accumulation law: the conversion exponent of U = I x R^alpha at its maximum, and the correction ceiling on self-improving growth. An earlier framing called that one number doing two jobs and proposed to test it by measuring the number two independent ways and requiring agreement; that test is withdrawn as vacuous before filing, because if both exponents arise because accumulation is independence-limited then they share a law, agreement is forced, and a test that cannot fail is not a test. The replacement asserts no independence, so the confound has nothing to bite on, and a common cause is a simpler theory than a coincidence; the cross-class ratio already on the register carries the unification instead, pinned at exactly 1.00 by the no-framework null and predicted materially above 1.00 by the framework. The lineage is dated: the general form U = I x R appears in the 8 December 2024 self-emailed manuscript, which defines all three terms verbatim and frames the equation as the complement to the mass-energy law, naming the squared speed of light as the conversion constant; the squared form first enters the dated record with the 30 April 2025 self-emailed manuscript of the book, and appears in the 2 January 2026 print as its stated equation U = I x R squared (pre-face and glossary) and as Prediction 1; the joined statement, law ranked before value with the two-ways-must-agree test withdrawn as vacuous and its replacement stated, was published on this site on 9 August 2026. The law is what carries the priority: kill the value two and the law is untouched, because a different measured correction exponent yields a different ceiling; kill the law and the value two has nothing holding it up, because the book printed the square without deriving it and the derivation arrived eighteen months later through the reciprocal.", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2026-08-09", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-039/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/the-laws/index.html", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/data/claims-ledger.json", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/data/arc-bound-framing-question.json" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "The law before the value: state the reciprocal relation first, the digit two second. Never quote the book's printed R-squared as evidence for the critical exponent being two; the book printed the square without deriving it, and the derivation arrived through the reciprocal eighteen months later. Never say the ceiling has been measured on real correctors: the value two is entailed under the same-class independence assumption, which is not itself a result. Never write 'one number does two jobs' or 'measured two independent ways ... must agree' as if still live; both are withdrawn. Never write 'runaway' on research surfaces: say 'unbounded growth'. Aim tests at the assumption, not the digit. The cross-class ratio on the register has not been measured on real data." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-040/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-040/", "name": "The mechanism: correction leverage and its reciprocal as the source of the ceiling", "identifier": "PC-040", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "concepts" ], "text": "The 2026 papers programme supplied the mechanism the earlier record stated without one: a corrector built inside a system improves by accumulating its own corrections; accumulated corrections combine at best like independent samples, capping internal correction at the square-root exponent; and the largest growth exponent at which the stay-correctable condition can still be met is the reciprocal of that cap. The mechanism is labelled a conjecture resting on the independence assumption, and its papers give every term an operational meter: capability on a held-out battery, depth on a substrate-fixed clock, output on a verified ledger.", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2026-01-17", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-040/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/the-laws/index.html", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/paper-x-coupled-coscaling-correction.html", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/paper-i-arc-principle.html", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/paper-ii-experimental-validation.html", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/data/claims-ledger.json" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "The mechanism rests on an assumption named same-class independence. It is a conjecture, not a measurement. Never present the reciprocal-of-correction-exponent ceiling as an established scaling law. Never present the digit two as the primary claim: the primary claim is the reciprocal relation, and the digit is what the relation returns under the independence assumption." }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-041/#claim", "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-041/", "name": "The deciding measurements, registered in advance of their data", "identifier": "PC-041", "genre": [ "Priority claim", "timeline" ], "text": "ARC-Beta-k, the programme's registered measurement arm, files its verdicts before the answers. The correction-leverage exponent is measured directly from running systems, and the falsification number that separates the framework from a no-framework null is the cross-class to same-class correction-exponent ratio: the null pins that ratio at exactly 1.00, because architecture-blind averaging has no free parameter for composition class; the framework says materially above 1.00. Two predicted numbers for one measurable quantity, registered in advance of either dataset existing; the ratio itself has not been measured on real data. The earlier reciprocity test that asked for one number to be measured two independent ways and required agreement is withdrawn as vacuous before filing. If the surviving measurements later contradict the framework, the framework is withdrawn with the same prominence it was published; both component measurements stand on their own registrations. Details appear at registration.", "creator": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#person" }, "datePublished": "2026-08-12", "inLanguage": "en-GB", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/#programme" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/claims/pc-041/", "citation": [ "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/registered-programme/index.html", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/data/registration-diligence-table.json", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/data/arc-bound-framing-question.json", "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/data/claims-ledger.json" ], "disambiguatingDescription": "None of these registrations has been submitted or accepted: the programme's rule is that the AI prepares drafts and only a human files. Any public sentence implying N registrations are filed is false until submissions begin, and this ledger says so first. 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