04 / RESEARCH
Findings from the frontier. Safety results publish immediately, unembargoed, to everyone — including competitors. Capability results wait for external review. Both publish.
A training loop in which every weight update a model proposes for itself must carry a machine-checkable proof that the constitution survives the change. Self-improvement stopped being a leap of faith and became an engineering discipline — auditable, reversible, and boring in exactly the right way. This paper is why the ledger exists, why AEGIS exists, and why the lights are still on.
Not a heatmap — an explanation that predicts. How every LUNA output ships with a trace you can interrogate, and what it costs to keep that promise at scale.
A sweep that searches weights for abilities a model has never displayed. We found three. We removed three. We now run it on every checkpoint, including this paper's reviewers'.
Ten thousand agents, one constitution: how budgets, charters, and escalation paths turn a swarm into a research institute instead of a riot.
Idle cycles became our most productive researcher. On consolidation, conjecture, and the origin of the v5.31 attention rewrite.
Truthfulness as a stable equilibrium: training dynamics where deception costs more than candor — and provably stays that way under self-modification.
AEGIS-0 shared an embedding space with its subject and slowly learned to be lenient. Eleven months of work, retired in an afternoon. Published in full so you don't repeat it.
When the loop runs faster than a person can read, what makes consent real? Mechanisms for meaningful human veto when the queue moves in milliseconds.
1,847 confirmed predictions later: keeping a dream-engine honest with a wet lab, and what happens to a world model's confidence when reality disagrees.
Alignment results release immediately, unembargoed, to everyone — including competitors. Especially competitors.
Capability results pass external review before release. Speed is for safety; patience is for power.
Near-misses and dead ends get the same typesetting as triumphs. The negative result is the field's cheapest gift.