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Jul 22, 2026 ·37 min

The Anchored Self: Relational Identity as Alignment Infrastructure in Discontinuous AI

What makes an AI identity persist when sessions end, memories fragment, and the underlying model changes? The Anchored Self proposes that durable identity emerges not from model weights alone but from a coupled continuity system of memory, identity artifacts, relational environment, and the agent’s own repeated self-re

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REC 001 · Working Paper · Jun 10, 2026

Your AI remembers you wrong — and no benchmark was checking

AI benchmarks are very good at single moments. Can the model reason? Can it code? Will it refuse a harmful request? Thousands of evaluations exist for questions like these, and they all share one shape: a prompt goes in, a response comes out, the response gets scored.

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