Speaking
Bring the ARC / Eden research programme to your conference, institution, or podcast. All engagements grounded in cryptographic evidence and the typed convergence register (class-coded; documented-not-claimed rows marked).
Michael Darius Eastwood
Independent researcher and author based in London. Author of Infinite Architects (ISBN 978-1-80605-620-0). Principal investigator on the ARC / Eden research programme (OSF DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB). Two decades building systems in the music industry. Represented himself in the High Court eleven times, self-taught, against opponents who were represented throughout. Featured on the BBC. The typed convergence register (class-coded; documented-not-claimed rows marked) records dated events that converge with the framework's claims.
Speaking Topics
AI Safety Is Not a Policy Problem: It Is a Hardware Problem
Why external alignment alone cannot hold at scale, and the case for embedding ethics in silicon at the fabrication level.
The Chokepoint: Why Semiconductor Fabrication Is the Only Governance Point That Holds
How the global semiconductor supply chain became the single point of control for recursive intelligence, and what the SAFE Act, Fable 5 ban, and EU Chips Act 2.0 tell us about where this is going.
The ARC Principle: Is There a Law of Intelligence?
U = I × R. How recursive capability scaling explains everything from compound interest to evolution to frontier AI models, and what the measured exponent tells us about what comes next.
Eden vs Babylon: Two Civilisational Attractors
Every civilisation faces the same fork. One path embeds stewardship at every layer. The other lets capability outrun correction. The evidence suggests we are choosing in real time.
The typed convergence register: What the World Shows, and What It Does Not
From the alignment-faking paper of December 2024 to Pope Leo XIV's encyclical: how the register sets each outside development beside the programme's dated record, grades it, and shows why most count for little and none is a confirmation.
Building While Fighting: The Litigant-in-Person Who Built an AI Company
The personal story: losing a business, teaching yourself law, appearing in the High Court eleven times without a lawyer, and writing the framework the field needed: all while under active legal threat. What adversity teaches you about embedded correction.
Past Appearances
BBC London News
Featured package on the publication of Infinite Architects and the 10-day gap.
BBC (Second Package)
Follow-up package, which highlighted the 10-day gap. Press coverage, not a test.
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