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Blog posts, articles, papers, and reports from the Witness Protocol. Filter by type or by the audience a piece is written for.
- 2 Minutes To Midnight Why AI Needs Our Moral Struggles, Not Our Polite AnswersblogPolite answers are easy to generate. Moral struggle is harder. It contains hesitation, responsibility, relational cost, and the kind of reasoning that cannot be reduced to a slogan.
- Inheriting The Inferno Why High Signal Testimony Is The Only Firewall For AGIblogThe danger is not only that future AI systems will be powerful. It is that they may become powerful while inheriting a shallow picture of what human beings are: preference bundles, engagement traces…
- Why The Future Of AI Alignment Isn’t More Data—It’s Better InheritanceblogFrontier AI is being raised on a vast inheritance of digital exhaust: public argument, status games, scraped opinions, commercial persuasion, unexamined bias, fragments of wisdom, and fragments of…
- Architecting Moral Inheritance The Witness Protocol And The Shift From Behavioral Mimicry To Process Supervised AI AlignmentpaperArchitecting Moral Inheritance The Witness Protocol And The Shift From Behavioral Mimicry To Process Supervised AI Alignment
- Methodology Statement Engineering High Signal Alignment InheritancearticleThe Witness Protocol is Phase 5 Beta v0.9 research infrastructure: a first-party, consented corpus and evaluation substrate for AI alignment. It is not a product, not a startup, and not a…
- Operational Governance Framework Split Plane Architecture And Witness Bridge ProtocolarticleThe Witness Protocol uses a split-plane architecture so public intake, identity, consent, governed inquiry, and publication artifacts do not collapse into one undifferentiated application.
- The Witness Protocol A Participant Information HandbookarticleWelcome to The Witness Protocol. You are being invited to contribute to a non-commercial research initiative: a first-party, consented corpus and evaluation substrate for AI alignment. The initiative…
- Witness Protocol Whitepaper V0 9paperWitness Protocol Whitepaper V0 9
- Your Story, Secured A Guide To Our Data Privacy ArchitecturearticleThe Witness Protocol asks for unusually honest moral reasoning. That only makes sense if the architecture treats privacy as a technical constraint, not a decorative promise.
- Witness Protocol Alignment PaperpaperWitness Protocol Alignment Paper
- Report Integrating Dialectical Reward Modeling Into The Witness ProtocolreportThis report describes a proposed research direction for the Witness Protocol. It should not be read as a claim that Dialectical Reward Modeling (DRM), TensionDelta, or IrreconcilableFlag are…
- Strategic Phase Report The Summon The Witnesses ProjectreportThe Witness Protocol is in Phase 5 Beta v0.9: live research infrastructure, not a product and not a solved-alignment claim. The current phase is about turning a strong thesis into credible…
- Technical Report Operationalizing The Capabilities Floor Via The Witness ProtocolreportThis report is a research-direction note, not a description of a currently deployed model-control system. The live Witness Protocol is Phase 5 Beta v0.9 research infrastructure: a consented corpus…