Public research record
Eden Engineering
Michael Darius Eastwood ยท Independent AI alignment researcher
Published
Public research note
Historical record and withdrawal notice
Public note | 14 July 2026
The Eden research programme asks whether safety properties can remain effective as recursively improving systems become more capable, and distinguishes developmental alignment from constraints applied only at the boundary.
A conceptual Eden Engineering paper first entered the public record on 22 February 2026. A greatly expanded working specification and its rendered PDF were withdrawn from current circulation on 14 July 2026 pending patent and disclosure review.
This page deliberately contains no implementation detail. It preserves a truthful historical and authorship record without continuing to distribute the expanded working specification. The withdrawal covers the expanded hardware implementation specification only; the research papers of the ARC and Eden programme remain open and fully available.
Withdrawal does not erase any access that may already have occurred, and it is not a retraction of empirical results published separately. Each separate paper remains governed by its own evidence classification, limitations and falsification criteria.
Readers may consult the research hub, Paper III, Paper V, and the Eden Vision paper for independently published research and philosophical context.