The Governed Agent
Agents need explicit contracts. Humans retain the release gate.
An applied research lab preserving human authority over
intelligence.
Researching how advanced intelligence can remain understandable, bounded, and accountable to humanity.
Explore Our WorkARISU researches and builds tools to help organisations govern advanced intelligence, making its use more understandable, bounded and accountable.
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We study the infrastructures and institutions shaping advanced intelligence.
Agents need explicit contracts. Humans retain the release gate.
Safety has many meanings. We map them to practical controls.
Memory shapes model behaviour. Retrieval should preserve context without inventing it.
Machines will transact directly. Payments still need authority and limits.
Embodied systems need grounded data. Physical action demands harder safety boundaries.
Public instruments for examining evidence and incidents.
Governing what advanced agents can know, do, share, and release.
Contract-oriented infrastructure for bounded agent execution.
Coordinates powerful coding agents through explicit context, bounded authority, independent checks, human gates, and durable evidence. Models can propose effects. Release remains a human decision.
Evidence-backed operational awareness for coding agents.
Brings sessions from popular models into one evidence-backed operational view. Surfaces activity, policy, conflicts, and uncertainty without taking ownership of execution.
Consent-bounded collaboration across people, machines and agents.
Creates temporary rooms where people bring selected agents into a shared repository view. Only bounded presence and overlap signals cross; prompts, file contents, credentials, and control remain local.
Research should remain open to challenge.