Archive
The first version of the thinking behind Polaris, as published in 2025.
Archive. This is the 2025 thinking, kept on the record as it was published. It is not current positioning.
The conviction behind it still stands: people and companies should keep control of what they know and what they create as AI does more of the work. Some of the mechanisms have not held up. Paying individuals for ordinary personal data through tokenised data vaults has not produced meaningful, recurring income, and zero knowledge proofs do not let a model compute on data it cannot see. Where I now put money is set out in Investing in the Harness, and the wider argument in Agents of Sovereignty (October 2026).
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Thesis, 2025
Agents of Sovereignty: enabling data privacy, monetization, and autonomy in the post quantum agentic economy
The original thesis: agent identity through self sovereign credentials, privacy by design, personal data monetisation and quantum resistant identity.
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Research paper, 2025
Agents of Sovereignty: architecting a post labor economy through data monetization, privacy, and AI delegation
The Agentic Universal Basic Income paper: personal AI agents earning income for individuals from their own data.
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Explainer, 2025
What is Agentic Universal Basic Income (AUBI)?
A short explanation of the AUBI model and the infrastructure it assumed.
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Article, 2025
The future of agentic economies
How AI agents, self sovereign identity and blockchain settlement were expected to reshape economic participation.
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Article, 2025
Self sovereign identity and AI agents
Why identity control was treated as the anchor for agent delegation.