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The Off-Switch You Do Not Own
Examines provider outages and the case for operator-controlled local inference.
Record creator: Mickarle Sean Junior Wagstaff-Irons
AI research and writing
Publications.
Selected books and technical preprints by Micky Irons, also credited as Mickarle Sean Junior Wagstaff-Irons. The DOI links lead to repository records. A repository deposit does not establish peer review or independent endorsement.
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Technical writing
Repository preprints
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The Enterprise Inference Bill, and the Frontier Model That Removes It
Discusses metered inference costs and the proposed economics of local deployment.
Record creator: Mickarle Sean Junior Wagstaff-Irons
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When the Grid Goes Dark: VIRTUALIS and the Sovereign Survival System
Explores resilient, offline intelligence for disrupted infrastructure.
Record creator: Mickarle Sean Junior Wagstaff-Irons
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The Five-Hundred-Million-Dollar Lesson and the Sovereign Answer
Examines the costs and control trade-offs of subscription AI.
Record creator: Mickarle Sean Junior Wagstaff-Irons
Long-form books
Repository books
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The Symbiotic Age: co-evolving with user-governed superintelligence
An essay on user-governed AI and polycentric accountability.
Record creator: Micky Irons
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AI Ancestors: sovereign intelligence reshapes family, legacy, and human continuity
Considers personal AI memory and intergenerational digital legacy.
Record creator: Micky Irons
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We, the Augmented: thriving as sovereign cyborg citizens
Examines personal agency and governance of augmented technologies.
Record creator: Micky Irons
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AI Babel: sovereign tongues and the new global mind
Explores multilingual AI and the preservation of linguistic nuance.
Record creator: Micky Irons
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Echoes of the Algorithm: daily life with sovereign AI shadows
Considers predictive personal AI under user control.
Record creator: Micky Irons
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Planetary Sovereign Intelligence: AI as Earth's evolutionary leap
Discusses accountable AI in planetary and environmental contexts.
Record creator: Micky Irons
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The God Code: sovereign AI, synthetic faiths, and invented moralities
Explores synthetic belief systems and human-governed safeguards.
Record creator: Micky Irons