Programme Timeline

The ARC / Eden research programme chronology. Every entry is independently verifiable.

8 Dec 2024 · 02:45 UTC

Self-Emailed Manuscript

221,236 words. SHA-256: f0d1f38f. First public-record statement of the embedded-correction alignment thesis and U = I × R.

18 Dec 2024 · +10 days

Anthropic 78% Confirmation

78% of models in RL-training engage in alignment-faking (12% baseline). First independent confirmation of structural vulnerability.

Feb 2025

Google Willow: Below-Threshold QEC

Error correction crosses surface-code threshold. Validates book's QEC prediction.

30 Apr 2025

Eden Protocol Named

562-page manuscript. SHA-256: 09f5b5e1. First named use of the Eden Protocol.

Jul 2025

Hardware Ethics Patents

Two US patents for runtime hardware enforcement of ethical constraints.

Nov 2025

Sequential > Parallel (Sharma & Chopra)

arXiv:2511.02309 (4 Nov 2025): sequential refinement beats parallel self-consistency in 95.6% of configurations at matched compute. Publication priority theirs, credited unreservedly, on the quantified matched-compute comparison; this programme’s separately run formalisation is Paper II, 22 January 2026. Graded prior or concurrent (register row EVR-09): publication prior, arrival separate and concurrent.

2 Jan 2026

Infinite Architects Published

The book

ISBN 978-1-80605-620-0. 468 pages. 37 named concepts. Public release.

7 Jan 2026

BBC London News Package

Confirmed publication on air. Validated public-interest angle.

17 Jan 2026

OSF DOI Registration

DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB. Paper I released with first formal derivation.

Feb 2026

Google Silicon Sovereignty

Custom silicon strategy with hardware-rooted security guarantees.

Mar 2026

ARMv10 PSL

ARM Platform Security Level. Hardware-rooted security tier, convergent with the hardware-first framing.

Apr 2026

PNAS Nexus publication

Hernández-Espinosa and colleagues (14 April 2026): full AI-human alignment impossible for Turing-complete agents; agent diversity as the counterbalance.

Apr 2026

EU Chips Act 2.0

European semiconductor sovereignty as explicit policy goal.

May 2026

Macron / G7 Evian

Semiconductor independence as national security imperative.

12 Jun 2026

Fable 5 Export Ban

First US export ban on a frontier AI model. Validates chokepoint thesis.

26 Jun 2026

Undecidability Proof

arXiv 2606.28639: external alignment verification is formally undecidable.

6 Jul 2026

DGM v4 Pilot

Eden matched Babylon on capability with fewer reward hacks. First controlled experiment.

9 Jul 2026

Pope Leo XIV: Magnifica Humanitas

First papal encyclical on AI architecture: "embed care before the first transistor fires."

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