cooperate.social

the research arm of cooperate.com

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

Research Areas

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
Multi-Agent Systems
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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
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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
Research Reproducibility
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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
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
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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