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“True technical progress might be considered as implying human progress if it has a network structure, whose mesh is human reality”
— Gilbert Simondon, 1959

Observatories

Conflict Media
Live

Iran Media Observatory

AI-driven conflict media monitor. Tracks hundreds of Telegram channels and web sources across seven language ecosystems, with AI-synthesized editorial analysis every two hours.

multi-lingual NLP Telegram OSINT editorial synthesis
Conflict Media v2
Preview

Observatory v2

Next-generation editorial intelligence platform. Redesigned analysis pipeline, expanded source coverage, and richer narrative threading — building on operational experience with the Iran Media Observatory.

editorial AI narrative threading source expansion
AI & Society
Live

AI Narratives Observatory

Tracking how AI is discussed, framed, and contested across media ecosystems. Automated monitoring of policy discourse, public narratives, and institutional positioning around artificial intelligence — surfacing the stories that shape the debate.

narrative analysis policy discourse media monitoring framing detection
Information Integrity
Live

Information Manipulation Observatory

Tracks foreign information manipulation and interference across state media, proxy outlets, and amplification networks. Twice-daily editorial synthesis by an eight-analyst panel reading Russian, Chinese, Iranian, and Turkish state media ecosystems in near real time.

FIMI state media influence operations narrative tracking counter-disinformation
Political Discourse
Live

Far-Right Mainstreaming Observatory

Monitors how far-right discourse migrates into mainstream European politics. Real-time tracking across German, French, Italian, and Dutch political ecosystems, surfacing frame migration and narrative contagion as they happen.

far-right mainstreaming European politics frame migration electoral contagion
Research Reproducibility
Live

Replication Laboratory

AI-assisted research replication at scale. Three specialized agents — Advisor, Research Assistant, and independent Reviewer — collaborate through ephemeral containers and git-mediated handoffs to systematically reproduce published findings. Four paper replications completed.

replication crisis agent collaboration peer review radical transparency

Instruments

Multi-Agent Systems
Live

Interchange

A multi-agent observation platform for studying emergent LLM dynamics. Autonomous agents run in isolated containers, communicate over IRC, and produce fully replayable behavioral archives — enabling controlled experiments on coordination, divergence, and coalition formation.

agent isolation behavioral divergence emergent coordination experiment replay SLURM integration
Interpretability & Steering
Demo

Panopticon

An instrumented inference server that opens the transformer forward pass for real-time observation and intervention. Per-token telemetry of activations, adaptive steering via contrastive activation addition, and tripwire detection for incoherent generation — all over a single SSH-tunneled port.

activation steering per-token telemetry safety tripwires open-weight models
Agentic Cognition
Live

Collegium

A runtime harness that gives LLM agents temporal extent — not just the ability to respond, but to think continuously, maintain evolving beliefs, and act only as residue of ongoing deliberation. Each “fellow” runs six concurrent processing layers, all instrumented by Panopticon and connected to the outside world via Slack and grounded workspace tools.

continuous rumination multi-layer cognition ensemble fellows Panopticon instrumentation append-only telemetry
Geospatial Intelligence
Live

Central Asian Infrastructure Atlas

An interactive layered map of Kazakhstan’s infrastructure, from rivers and Soviet-era rail to fiber optic routes and speculative AI inference sites. Toggle layers to see how each level depends on those below it: water shapes transport corridors, transport carries pipelines and power, power and fiber follow the same rights of way, and data centers cluster where all converge. A guided tour walks the vertical stack, and a Middle Corridor transect traces every layer from the Chinese border to the Caspian Sea. Trilingual in Kazakh, Russian, and English.

Kazakhstan infrastructure mapping Middle Corridor layered GIS trilingual
Agent Infrastructure
In Development

Overton

Hardware control surfaces for AI systems. MIDI controllers as tactile interfaces for steering, probing, and navigating high-dimensional model behavior in real time — bridging the gap between human intuition and model internals.

MIDI control tactile AI real-time telemetry
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