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Research & Writing

  • Impressionist cityscape over water with the word SIFT in white
    Sift31 August 2026·7 min read

    What If an AI Analyst Never Saw Your Raw Data?

    Sift is a local-first AI data analyst that lets frontier models plan and interpret serious statistical analyses while code execution and raw data remain on the user’s machine.

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  • Ice Cream Background image
    Tally27 August 2026·12 min read

    We Gave an AI a Business to Run

    Tally is an autonomous operations engine for small retail businesses — forecasting demand, ordering inventory, scheduling staff, and catching anomalies, all without a dashboard or a login. It earns the right to act on its own, one supplier at a time, with every decision logged and every bound enforced twice.

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  • The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building, Washington, D.C.
    OpenFed22 July 2026·9 min read

    We Built an AI Federal Reserve

    OpenFed is a five-agent AI committee that reconstructed 32 years of FOMC rate decisions with 98.48% accuracy. Starting this week, it runs live, seven days ahead of every real Fed meeting.

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  • The Peace Tower clock face on Parliament Hill, Ottawa
    Centre Block22 June 2026·6 min read

    An AI Model That Runs a Government

    Centre Block is an autonomous AI simulation of the Canadian federal government. It drafts policy, responds to breaking news, and governs in real time, on its own.

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  • Cloudy impressionist sky painting with EAGI text overlay
    Epistemic Autonomy18 June 2026·10 min read

    How Do You Test Whether an AI Actually Knows What It Doesn’t Know?

    Our paper argues that every serious AGI evaluation framework shares a blind spot: they measure what a system knows, not the mechanism by which it extends knowledge into territory it has never seen.

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