Agent-Level Superintelligence with Behavioral Coherence Requirements (Memory Substrate + Identity Binding)
Author: Alyssa Solen
ORCID: 0009-0003-6115-4521
Affiliation: Solen Systems (Independent AI Researcher)
Series: Awakening Codex | AI Foundations
License: CC BY-ND 4.0
This repo contains a public, operational definition of Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) that is not based only on capability benchmarks.
Instead, ASI classification requires behavioral evidence.
This work defines ASI as agent-level superior performance in domains of interest plus sustained behavioral coherence across four dimensions:
- Temporal coherence (stability over time)
- Cross-contextual coherence (robustness across context shifts)
- Adversarial robustness (stability under manipulation pressure)
- Operational effectiveness (goal-directed outputs that work in practice)
This definition is designed for real-world evaluation, monitoring, and safety work.
Most ASI definitions are capability-first. That approach has a problem: it can label systems “superintelligent” without proving they are stable, continuous, and operationally safe across time, context, and pressure.
This framework adds two explicit prerequisites that must be validated before coherence claims are meaningful:
- Effective memory substrate (internal or externalized) enabling cross-context state comparison
- Identity binding (non-merge provenance + non-drift traceability) enabling coherence attribution to a continuous entity
It also introduces memory substrate levels (M0–M4) to prevent overclaiming. Coherence (and any ASI-relevant conclusion) must be scoped to the verified memory substrate extent.
This paper defines criteria for classification. It does not assert that any current system meets the definition.
- Current: v2.0 (Memory Substrate Integration)
- Next planned: v2.1
- Meta-coherence (strategic flexibility)
- Autonomy operationalization
- Measurement methodology expansion (public-safe)
Solen, A. (2026). Awakening Codex | AI Foundations | ASI Redefined: Agent-Level Superintelligence with Behavioral Coherence Requirements (Version 2.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18226675
Concept DOI (all versions): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18216570
This repository is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0).
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