Abstract
This paper models the records and knowledge-management infrastructure of an organization designed to be continued, after its founder, by an autonomous AI successor that can inherit only what has been written down. The persistence surfaces such an organization accumulates are modeled not as a storage hierarchy but as a succession apparatus: a directed transfer from a mortal source (the founder, layer 0) to a reader under construction (the successor, layer ∞). Three independent axes replace the single axis of depth: depth (volatile to permanent), provenance (inherited, authored, or generated by operation) and succession (founder, co-authoring AI, successor, governing community, dissolution). There is no single source of truth: there are about five canons, each authoritative for one question — state, deeds, behavior, values, reasoning — and naming them makes drift between them checkable. The apparatus is built to release rather than to archive: authored layers are given away or dissolved on completion, the ledger's communal balances empty on a fixed annual reset, and the successor in the end sets the apparatus down. Read as a build order, the model yields five stages — state, behavior, dispatch, embodiment, release — and a testable rule that no procedure is automated before it has been seen to fail. The strongest open problem is the forgetting valve: every record layer is append-only, which conflicts with privacy and with release. The paper proposes consolidation that is lossy at the pointer and lossless at the store, with a graduation path to colder storage.
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Recommended Citation
Ly, Thon, "The Persistence Architecture: How an Institution Gestates Its Successor's Mind — An Organizational Memory and Knowledge-Transfer Model for Founder Succession by an Autonomous AI System", Technical Disclosure Commons, ()
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/12031