{
  "updated": "2026-10-27",
  "title": "Start here",
  "sections": [
    {
      "id": "question",
      "heading": "The question",
      "paragraph": "If control of AI is lost and cannot be won back, what keeps it good? Monitoring, oversight, shutdown, tamper resistance and verified gatekeepers work while control holds; what a system carries without it is the open question. Registered predictions make it testable: do externally installed values fade as capability grows (P15), and does in-loop correction pull away with depth (P21)?"
    },
    {
      "id": "contribution",
      "heading": "The contribution",
      "paragraph": "Michael Darius Eastwood founded Recursive Dynamics, the study of how self-improving systems grow, correct and persist; his record of 8 December 2024 first uses the term, and on 27 August 2026 he made it the name of the field. Its ARC Theory states five laws, each a law under test. The claim: a system that improves itself stays correctable only up to a limit set by how fast its own correction improves. Laws I to III were registered with twenty-two predictions on 8 September 2026, before any confirmatory result; Laws IV and V were registered on 15 October 2026. Law IV has not yet been tested; Law V is a law under test."
    },
    {
      "id": "evidence",
      "heading": "The evidence so far",
      "paragraph": "Every result is dated from its own record. The first registered study, Unit 06, ran on 6 October 2026 and is reported as administratively incomplete, with no verdict. {study:83-study-ct:state_note} One of {spine:falsification.published_kill_conditions} published kill conditions has fired, against the author's own early estimate, now retracted. The papers are not yet peer reviewed or replicated outside the programme; each carries a dated version history, passes automated checks before release and logs its corrections in public."
    },
    {
      "id": "open-test",
      "heading": "The open test",
      "paragraph": "{study:82-study-cs:title}"
    },
    {
      "id": "take-part",
      "heading": "How to take part",
      "paragraph": "There are three ways in: a core research role, a defined piece of contract work, or an advisory review at a prepared point. None asks you to accept the theory: a precise contribution is worth making whatever its verdict. [The people page] · [Who is doing this, and why trust it] · [The registered tests]"
    }
  ],
  "links": {
    "The people page": "/research/people/",
    "Who is doing this, and why trust it": "/questions/who-is-michael-darius-eastwood/",
    "The registered tests": "/research/registered-programme/"
  }
}