Site IntegrityDemonstrated real incidentv1.22.1
In plain English
This page is part of the technical reference. It keeps the expert detail but starts with a plain-language summary for first-time readers.
- Why this matters: AI risk can come from the whole arrangement, not one obvious model.
- What to look for: data, memory, routes, adapters, tools, evaluators, updates, and rollback paths.
- Technical version below: the expert terminology remains available and is linked through the glossary.
Decentralized Persistence Risk Surface v1.22.1
Evidence levelDemonstrated real incidentTechnical label: Demonstrated
This release updates Cognivirus.com with a report-derived decentralized-persistence risk surface while preserving the defensive boundary: no exploit instructions, no malware claim, no consciousness claim, no certification.
What changed
- Updated
/anatomy/report-derived-threat-surfaceinto the canonical Decentralized PersistenceA behavior-preservation risk that grows when AI state, memory, adapters, tools, and evaluators are spread across many local or independent systems. Open glossary definition page. - Added
/risk-lab/decentralized-persistence-review. - Added
/research/decentralized-persistence-source-dossier. - Added
/evidence/source-dossier-decentralized-persistence-2026. - Added glossary terms for decentralized persistence, local AI ecology, control-plane fragmentation, edge residue, handoff packets, bounded local reset, verifiable local manifests, and behavioral extinction evidenceEvidence that a behavior is no longer expressible across active artifacts, descendants, memory, routes, compositions, retained training material, and local state. Open glossary definition.
- Updated homepage, Start Here, The Problem, Plain English, Most Likely Threat Model, Danger Model, Apex Threat, Consent & Control, Edge Runtime Reproduction BoundaryThe governance boundary separating permitted candidate generation and governed descendant creation from uncontrolled autonomous replication or authority expansion. Open glossary definition, Research Library, Risk Lab, discovery files, route manifests,
.uaimemory, and UAIX package manifest.
Boundary carried forward
The uploaded report is treated as a source dossier. Its external claims require independent verification before promotion to demonstrated evidence. Cognivirus.com uses it to deepen risk-review architecture, not to claim that local AI is inherently unsafe.
Public route
Read the canonical page: Decentralized Persistence.