Exploring the intersections of technology, culture, and human behavior.
Original studies, theses, and preprints examining how systems shape thought and expression.
Preprint: Governance as Substrate: Engineering Patterns for Resilient Collective Systems, T. Smith Founder/Creator Presence Engine™, Published April 13, 2026
Preprint: Presence Engine v1.1 Cache-to-Cache State Transfer for Persistent Identity in Stateful AI Systems, T. Smith Founder/Creator Presence Engine™, Published April 9, 2026
Report, Bechnmark: Presence Engine: Deterministic Identity at 0.007ms Latency (0.0006% Overhead), T. Smith Founder/Creator Presence Engine™, Published March 18, 2026
Technical: AI Structural Framework | Güdge Layer 0 Infrastructure, T. Smith Founder/Creator Presence Engine™, Published March 10, 2026
Thesis: Neve: A Presence‑First, Sovereignty‑Preserving Stateful AI Architecture, T. Smith Founder/Creator Presence Engine™, Published February 14, 2026
Conference paper: Stateful Reasoning Runtimes: Architectural Patterns for Identity Persistence Over Stateless LLM APIs, T. Smith Founder/Creator Presence Engine™, Published December 2, 2025
Technical: Dignity-First Artificial Intelligence: Privacy, Ethics, and Human Agency in Stateful Systems, T. Smith Founder/Creator Presence Engine™, Published November 28, 2025
Technical: Agent Goal Drift in Stateful Systems: Detection, Constraints, and Circuit-Level Governance, T. Smith Founder/Creator Presence Engine™, Published November 24, 2025
Technical: Domain-Calibrated Trust in Stateful AI Systems: Implementing Continuity, Causality, and Dispositional Scaffolding, T. Smith Founder/Creator Presence Engine™, Published November 21, 2025
Technical: Human-Centric AIX™ Stack: Presence Engine™ and the C³ Model, T. Smith Founder/Creator Presence Engine™ , Published November 20, 2025
Preprint: Why Stateful AI Fails Without Ethical Guardrails: Real Implementation Challenges and the De-Risking Architecture, T. Smith Founder/Creator Presence Engine™, Published November 11, 2025
Technical: Introspective Awareness and Continuity Architecture: Engineering Implications of Anthropic’s Introspection Research, T. Smith Founder/Creator Presence Engine™, Published October 30, 2025
Preprint: Stateful Intelligence: Engineering Trust, Continuity, and Dignity in Human-AI Experiences, T. Smith, Founder/Creator Presence Engine™, Published October 25, 2025
Living Thesis: Presence Engine™ Living Thesis: Building Human-Centric AIX™ (AI Experience), T. Smith, Founder/Creator Presence Engine™, Published October 6, 2025