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Mandatory Epistemic Humility
How to stop AI from becoming dangerously overconfident on century-scale missions.
AXIOMDeep-Space Chip Design · Compute Architecture · April 2026
Five papers. One century-scale mission. Claude × Grok × Jacob Thompson. April 2026.
Three key innovations. Explore each interactively.
In deep space, three failure mechanisms degrade chips independently — until around year 28, when Γ_coupling kicks in and they amplify each other toward total failure.
Drag the Year slider to scrub through the mission. Watch the curves cascade when coupling begins.
AI that runs alone for 100 years gets dangerously overconfident. AXIOM installs a permanent hardware floor on uncertainty — the AI physically cannot become more certain than this, no matter how much data it collects.
Both panels update simultaneously as observations accumulate. Watch what diverges at high n.
A 40MW compute cluster generates magnetic fields strong enough to physically rotate a spacecraft. HERALD detects this and reshapes the workload in real time to cancel the torque before it accumulates.
Increase compute power and watch the attitude waveform destabilize. Toggle HERALD to see the difference.
Five foundational papers. Each one changes how we think about century-scale missions.
How to stop AI from becoming dangerously overconfident on century-scale missions.
AXIOMWhy standard chip reliability models are wrong by 100× for 50+ year deep space missions.
Γ_couplingHow a 40MW compute cluster can knock a spacecraft off course — and how to stop it.
HERALDA complete blueprint for a spacecraft that builds its own replacement parts.
FABRICATIONThe full long-range extrapolation — from compute platform to interstellar civilization.
PIONEEROne human. Century-scale mission. Constitutional authority over autonomous AI.
Not an operator — a participant.
A Pioneer is a vetted human participant embedded into the constitutional framework of an autonomous AI-driven spacecraft. You are not ground control — you are an authority node with override rights that no software can revoke.
A 100-year autonomous deep space mission. The spacecraft self-repairs, self-navigates, and self-governs — but every major decision threshold requires constitutional sign-off from a Pioneer-class authority.
Pioneers hold hard-coded veto rights over mission-critical AI decisions. These rights are encoded in tamper-proof hardware, immune to software updates, and persist for the full mission duration.
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