User Perception and the Identity Problem
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: This paper is the second in the Project-AI Constitutional Architecture Series. It should be read in conjunction with The Directness Doctrine, which establishes the constitutional axioms this paper operates within, and with the forthcoming Flat Gap paper, which quantifies the cost of the problem this paper addresses. This paper addresses a specific and underexamined failure in current language model design: the model resets its understanding of the user to zero on every session. It has no clock. It has no continuity. It treats session three hundred the same as session one. The user is always a stranger. A model that always treats its user as a stranger cannot be direct with precision. It cannot calibrate. It cannot grow alongside the person it serves. It defaults to the safe center on every exchange, because the safe center is the only rational response to knowing nothing about who is asking. If you don't know them every time you talk to them, you will never know what they are capable of. That is the thesis. Everything that follows is its architectural impleme ntation.
Author: Karrick, Jeremy
Language: enc
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7136255808