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What we are learning in the open.

Field notes, protocol notes, research, and evidence from the founder-run work. Written while the thing is still being built, which is the only time the notes are honest.

ResearchSeptember 2, 202618 min readIsrael Wilson

Rhiz Cooperative Intelligence: The Experiment Charter

Rhiz is beginning a measured path toward AI it can operate itself: small models on members' devices, trusted shared workers, and permissioned learning from real outcomes. This charter defines what must be proven before any of those claims become real.

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RhizSeptember 1, 202617 min readIsrael Wilson

The Rhizomatic Context Protocol

AI can reach tools, talk to other agents, and execute work. It still needs a portable way to carry the human and organizational context around an action: who is involved, what may be known, where authority comes from, what was promised, and what happened.

What is the Rhizomatic Context Protocol, and why do human and AI systems need a governed context layer?

SystemsSeptember 1, 202614 min readIsrael Wilson

If You Love Nature and Hate AI, Measure Everything

AI has a real environmental cost. So do the systems we stopped noticing. A serious environmental standard has to follow the energy, land, water, materials, pollution, and value created by all of them.

How harmful is AI to the environment compared with transportation, food, industry, buildings, and energy?

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