Selected releases and notes.
Events, research publications, standards contributions and occasional notes from OTIS Labs.
Recent events
- October 2026Letter
Letter to Speaker Menin
AI should amplify human intent without transferring authority to its provider. This letter and written testimony ask the Council to complement model-level safeguards with deployment requirements for live, revocable authority and City-held data, work history and mandates that remain portable across providers.
Read the letter and written testimony (PDF) - August 2026Checklist
Authority Checklist for Consequential Agents
Nine questions for enterprises putting agents in front of money, customers or infrastructure: who holds the authority, how it is bounded, how it is revoked, and what evidence remains afterward.
Download the checklist (PDF) - August 2026Essay
AI Agents Are Not Traditional Software
Why agents act through ongoing interpretation in real time, and the case for a provider-agnostic authority layer.
- July 2026Research
Experiential AGI Is Already Here
Intelligence, alignment and human sovereignty in the human-AI relationship.
- July 2026Standards
Comment on NIST SP 800-228A
Public comment on authorization for agentic systems and the boundary between access and legitimate action.
- June 2026Essay
Sovereignty
Why preserving the human or organization as the source of authority may become a practical requirement for securing agentic systems.
- June 2026Research
Trust Asymmetry in Autonomous AI Agents
How repeated agent success increases human confidence while reducing verification.
- April 2026Standards
Behavioral Coherence, Trust Asymmetry, and Emergent Behavior in Agent Identity Subjects
Public comment submitted in response to the W3C DID v1.1 Candidate Recommendation.
- July 2026Demonstration
Working demonstration at MIT Project NANDA
OTIS Labs presented a working demonstration at MIT's Project NANDA hackathon (The Internet of AI Agents).
Watch on YouTube - March 2026Research
The Detection Horizon
The interval between an agent's divergence from its mandate and the moment a human is able to notice it.
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