Mian Zhang

Systems / Local-First AI

SOVEREIGN is easiest to understand as a local-first decision system.

This page translates the internal term into an external question: how can AI support decisions while preserving evidence, privacy, boundaries, and review state?

local-first AI AI decision system private AI assistant architecture cognitive operating system SOVEREIGN
Evidence Map Papers Registries Counterexamples

Search Intent

Readers are searching for local-first AI, personal AI decision systems, and private decision assistants.

  • What is SOVEREIGN in practical terms?
  • How is a local-first AI decision system different from a cloud chatbot?
  • What public evidence exists and what remains private?
  • What does the system not claim today?

Translation

The external phrase is decision system, not magic intelligence.

SOVEREIGN is a system architecture for evidence, memory, tasks, boundaries, and review loops around AI-assisted decisions.

Its local-first design keeps private user data, credentials, and execution traces on the systems that own them.

What You Can Inspect

Papers and demos explain the architecture without exposing private data.

The linked papers, concepts, demos, and registries describe the design and the limits of the available evidence.

Private orchestration, credentials, customer data, and unpublished execution traces are not part of these materials.

Evidence Route

Where the claim can be checked.

This page is an entry point. The claim should be evaluated through DOI records, evidence maps, registries, GitHub/HF technical routes, and public counterexamples.

KindAnchorURLRole
Evidence MapPublic claim and evidence maphttps://mianzhang.org/evidence/Start from supported claims and known boundaries.
Paper IndexDOI and paper status maphttps://mianzhang.org/papers/Use paper-specific DOI records for paper claims.
RegistriesMachine-readable public registrieshttps://mianzhang.org/registries/Inspect claim, evidence, action, and counterexample records.
ChallengeCounterexample submissionhttps://mianzhang.org/counterexamples/Submit a counterexample, identify missing evidence, or request a stronger baseline.
ArchiveZenodo portfolio indexhttps://zenodo.org/records/20027295Long-term archive index; cite specific DOI records when available.
SystemsSystems pagehttps://mianzhang.org/systems/Public system-level routing and boundaries.

Boundary

What this page does not prove.

  • This page does not claim a commercial product is deployed.
  • It does not disclose private local runtime state.
  • It does not claim general intelligence or universal autonomy.
FAQ

Is SOVEREIGN a chatbot?

No. It is better described as a local-first decision-system architecture around evidence, tasks, memory, and boundaries.

FAQ

Why local-first?

Because sensitive user state and execution traces should stay outside public evidence unless explicitly made public.

FAQ

What can be publicly checked?

Papers, concept entries, evidence maps, registries, issue routes, and bounded demos.