| Current AI/mathematics |
Mathematics in the age of AI |
Terence Tao |
Primary essay / current perspective |
Use after building agent systems: interrogates what mathematical research is for if research-level problem solving becomes abundant. |
| AI & mathematics principles |
Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics |
Leiden Declaration |
Current declaration / normative principles |
Use as a human-centered governance position to reconstruct, critique and operationalize-not as empirical proof. |
| Wicked problems |
Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning |
Horst Rittel, Melvin Webber |
Classic planning theory |
Use to mark the boundary where objective formulation itself is contested; do not abandon local quantitative optimization. |
| Communication |
What is NVC? |
Center for Nonviolent Communication |
Originating practitioner framework |
Use for structured conflict experiments; efficacy claims require separate empirical evidence. |
| Leadership/team practice |
Conscious Leadership resources |
Conscious Leadership Group |
Practitioner framework |
Use as behavioral experiments in retrospectives; retain only practices that improve accountability/learning. |
| Participatory design |
Design Justice |
Sasha Costanza-Chock / MIT Press |
Open-access scholarship/framework |
Use to alter problem-definition and participation mechanisms, paired with technical/effect evidence. |
| System safety |
Engineering a Safer World |
Nancy Leveson / MIT Press |
Open-access technical monograph |
Use as the system-safety anchor for interaction/control/organizational causality. |
| Agent self-improvement |
Darwin Gödel Machine |
Zhang et al. |
Primary research paper |
Use to study empirical self-modification with external evaluation/sandbox boundaries. |
| Meta self-improvement |
Hyperagents |
Zhang et al. |
Primary research paper (2026) |
Use to distinguish task-level improvement from modification of the improvement process itself. |
| Autonomous science |
The AI Scientist-v2 |
Yamada et al. |
Primary research paper |
Use for autonomous experiment/research architecture; reproduce and independently verify rather than accepting automated review. |
| Multi-agent systems |
How we built our multi-agent research system |
Anthropic |
Engineering report |
Useful production evidence on orchestrator-worker patterns, breadth-first tasks, cost and failure; not universal benchmark authority. |
| Space systems |
NASA Systems Engineering Handbook |
NASA Office of the Chief Engineer |
Primary/official engineering authority |
Use for requirements, architecture, verification/validation and technical management. |
| Space MBSE |
NASA-HDBK-1009A Systems Modeling Handbook |
NASA |
Primary/official current handbook |
Active 2025 systems-modeling guidance; use for traceable model-based system artifacts. |
| Space industry |
NASA ISAM |
NASA Goddard |
Primary/official capability program |
Use for current in-space servicing/assembly/manufacturing context and staged capability thinking. |
| BCI reality check |
Brain-computer device helps man speak |
NIH Research Matters |
Primary-authority research summary |
Use to anchor neurotech to practical home-use capability and longitudinal utility rather than offline decoding scores. |