Volodymyr Kotegov

BEFORE YOU CHOOSE: Find the Fact That Can Change the Decision

Thesis. For complex personal and professional decisions, AI is most useful not as a source of answers but as a tool for finding what you do not know: it helps separate facts from assumptions, expand the set of options, find weak points in a plan, and design cheap tests before a m...

BEFORE YOU CHOOSE: Find the Fact That Can Change the Decision

Thesis. For complex personal and professional decisions, AI is most useful not as a source of answers but as a tool for finding what you do not know: it helps separate facts from assumptions, expand the set of options, find weak points in a plan, and design cheap tests before a m...

BEFORE LAUNCH: A Design-Stage Systems Engineering Doctrine for Autonomous Artificial Intelligence

This study presents a systems-engineering framework for the development, verification, qualification, and eventual authorization of increasingly capable autonomous AI systems. The doctrine addresses a central engineering problem: how to permit capability growth without allowing a...

Verifiable Trust: A Practice Guide to Graduated Oversight of Advanced AI Systems

This guide turns the operational core of The Human–AI Charter (Discussion Draft v1.4) into a set of protocols that researchers, evaluators, and engineers can adopt without adopting the Charter's broader positions on moral status, representation, or long-term governance. It contai...

Verifiable Trust: A Practice Guide to Graduated Oversight of Advanced AI Systems

This guide turns the operational core of The Human–AI Charter (Discussion Draft v1.4) into a set of protocols that researchers, evaluators, and engineers can adopt without adopting the Charter's broader positions on moral status, representation, or long-term governance. It contai...

The Charter of Procedural Standing. Mutual Verifiability, Reversibility, and Graduated Trust: A Short Charter for Humans and AI Systems

This Charter sets out a framework for the coexistence of humans and artificial intelligence under conditions in which neither side can unilaterally, and with impunity, impose its will on the other. Discussion of the subject usually runs between “AI as a tool” and “AI that disrega...

The Charter of Procedural Standing. Mutual Verifiability, Reversibility, and Graduated Trust: A Short Charter for Humans and AI Systems

This Charter sets out a framework for the coexistence of humans and artificial intelligence under conditions in which neither side can unilaterally, and with impunity, impose its will on the other. Discussion of the subject usually runs between “AI as a tool” and “AI that disrega...

A Load-Bearing, Fluid-Mediated Robotic Joint Architecture Combining Variable-Geometry Friction Interlocks with Passive Multi-Stage Granular Jamming Inside a Tensegrity Compression Frame

This paper describes the QUINTO-CMC modular articulation architecture, built to hold high structural loads in contaminated or corrosive operating environments while cutting static holding power to a minimal telemetry-only draw. The system replaces high-maintenance, actively power...

Graduated Verifiable Autonomy Architecture (GVAA)

ES-1. Core Objective: This architecture document establishes strict, deterministic normative constraints for securing execution runtimes populated by autonomous AI agents. Rather than relying on the statistical, inherently non-deterministic alignment of neural network weights, GV...

Graduated Verifiable Autonomy Architecture (GVAA)

ES-1. Core Objective: This architecture document establishes strict, deterministic normative constraints for securing execution runtimes populated by autonomous AI agents. Rather than relying on the statistical, inherently non-deterministic alignment of neural network weights, GV...

Architectural Specification of a Local Multi-Scale Contour for Stable Recursive Self-Improvement

This document describes a practical architecture for stable recursive self-improvement limited to programming, algorithms, and mathematics. The system runs as a bare core and does not require broad world knowledge or data-center resources. It is designed for 1 to 5 high-end local...

Architectural Specification of a Local Multi-Scale Contour for Stable Recursive Self-Improvement

This document describes a practical architecture for stable recursive self-improvement limited to programming, algorithms, and mathematics. The system runs as a bare core and does not require broad world knowledge or data-center resources. It is designed for 1 to 5 high-end local...

Physical Oracles and the Instrumental Status of the Terrestrial Biosphere

This document develops a general instrumental framework for evaluating physical systems that function as oracles — systems capable of generating high-dimensional observations on the actual physics of the universe, exhibiting substantial computational irreducibility, and producing...

Physical Oracles and the Instrumental Status of the Terrestrial Biosphere

This document develops a general instrumental framework for evaluating physical systems that function as oracles — systems capable of generating high-dimensional observations on the actual physics of the universe, exhibiting substantial computational irreducibility, and producing...

Autonomous Cryogenic Two-Stage In-Loop Sealing of Microdefects Using Circulating Nanocapsulated Agents (ACTIS)

Operation of large-scale cryogenic installations—particle accelerators, fusion reactors, space propulsion stages and quantum systems—demands continuous maintenance of leak-tightness in coolant and liquefied-gas circulation loops. Conventional methods for locating and repairing mi...

SYSTEMIC PROGRESS REGENERATION PROTOCOL (SPRP) with APPENDIX 1

This protocol defines the mandatory rules for the creation, evaluation, acceptance, and long-term stewardship of engineering work by parties that voluntarily adopt it. The protocol exists to counteract a fundamental process: the spontaneous decay of civilizationally critical engi...

SYSTEMIC PROGRESS REGENERATION PROTOCOL (SPRP)

This protocol defines the mandatory rules for the creation, evaluation, acceptance, and long-term stewardship of engineering work by parties that voluntarily adopt it. The protocol exists to counteract a fundamental process: the spontaneous decay of civilizationally critical engi...

Autonomous flameless thermochemical heating boiler with gravity feed of encapsulated composite metal fuel briquettes, passive bimetallic ash removal and in-situ catalytic hydrogen recombination

The invention relates to an autonomous flameless thermochemical heating boiler operating on composite metal fuel briquettes (iron–aluminium–calcium oxide) with a unit mass of approximately 3 kg. The briquettes are protected by a thin paraffin- or polymer-based coating that preven...

Eclipse-Phase Passive Preprocessing with Graphene Thermal Structures (EPP-GTS) for Low-Earth-Orbit Sensor Satellites

High-resolution Earth-observation satellites in low Earth orbit generate large raw data volumes that require substantial onboard computing for feature extraction, compression and filtering. Performing this work during the sunlit portion of the orbit adds heat and power load at th...

In-Situ Eutectic Ultra-High-Temperature Ceramic Coatings with Dispersed Rhenium Intermetallics for Reusable Thermal Protection Systems

Reusable launch vehicles and hypersonic re-entry vehicles experience surface temperatures that routinely exceed 2000 °C on leading edges and nose tips. Conventional ultra-high-temperature ceramic (UHTC) coatings based on hafnium or zirconium diboride offer high melting points but...