The Cognitive Sovereignty Framework is a versioned, living doctrine. This document records all significant additions, revisions, and expansions to the framework over time.
Focus: Complete AI-Era Architecture
- Domain 6: Digital & AI Symbiosis — The missing pillar across all DoD resilience frameworks. Addresses the human-AI interface and the specific vulnerabilities that emerge when humans operate within human-AI systems.
- EFA Integration — Ethical Functionality without Agency paradigm integrated as technical enforcement architecture for Domain 6. Domain 6 is now backed by both human training and structural technical guarantees.
- E7 Protocol Stack — EFA/AI-SAFE² 7-Layer Protocol Stack integrated as the architectural reference ensuring human authority at Layer 7.
- HEAR Doctrine — Human Ethical Agent of Record accountability requirement formalized and linked to CSF Domain 6 assessment.
- Ring of Fire (RoF) — Multi-model oversight architecture added as Domain 6 technical enforcement mechanism.
- ST-006: Guardrail Alignment Drift — Added following analysis of LLM guardrail behaviors. Captures risk that AI alignment mechanisms themselves become instruments of ideological control.
- ST-007: Model Performance Drift — Added following analysis of model drift patterns. Captures gradual AI degradation that erodes user cognitive capacity without triggering awareness.
- T-CT-017: Guardrail Bias Exploitation — Added as active technique distinct from narrative capture; operates through the tools people use to access information.
- T-CT-018: Repetition and Normalization Manipulation — Added; detectable through n-gram spike analysis and linguistic pattern monitoring.
- CD-005: Computational Acceleration Misalignment — Added following wargame analysis showing speed mismatch between AI evolution and human governance.
- CD-006: Civilizational Reproduction Failure — Added following wargame scenarios where family dissolution and intergenerational value transmission failure produced civilizational collapse outcomes no amount of technical defense could prevent.
- 10 Newly Identified Threat Classes (TC-01 through TC-10) — Capturing the estimated 20–30% of modern cognitive influence previously unattributed; operating through incentive structures, environmental conditioning, and voluntary adoption.
- 3 Edge Domain Additions (E1–E3) — Autonomous Swarm Reality Formation, Synthetic Consensus Economies, Civilizational Reproduction Failure.
- Three-Layer Measurement Stack — Technical telemetry (Layer A), societal stability metrics (Layer B), and civilizational trajectory analysis (Layer C).
- Swarm Detection Module (S1–S3) — Dedicated detection capabilities addressing ecosystem-scale autonomous manipulation.
- Command Center — Interactive HTML5 visualization dashboard with JSON-driven threat registry.
v1.0 → v2.0: ~80% → 92% overall coverage
Focus: Foundation
- Six-domain model proposal
- Initial CTSS scoring baseline (Likelihood, Impact on Agency, Population Reach)
- 18 technique families (T-CT-001 through T-CT-016)
- Four-layer threat architecture (Civilizational Drivers, Manipulation Techniques, Delivery Scale, Human Outcomes)
- Mapping against existing DoD resilience frameworks (CAF, CSF2, OSC, Total Fitness, Guardian Resilience)
- Information Operations doctrine lineage established
- DoD AI Ethical Principles alignment documented
| Priority | Addition | Target |
|---|---|---|
| High | Neuro-swarm integration techniques | v2.1 |
| High | Quantum acceleration threat class | v2.1 |
| Medium | Individual-level CTSS assessment tool | v2.1 |
| Medium | Unit-level cognitive readiness scorecard | v2.2 |
| Low | Legislative response integration | v2.2 |
| Low | Defense industrial base application guide | v2.3 |