What is ARI?
The Aurora Research Initiative is the institutional layer that decides how scientific AI must be conducted across the Aurora ecosystem. ARI defines the charter, scope, and authority under which Waveframe Labs and all derivative projects operate.
In practice, ARI is the “who decides” layer: it establishes the rules that AWO must implement and that CRI-CORE must enforce.
Scope & Responsibilities
Core responsibilities
- Define institutional mission, values, and epistemic commitments.
- Ratify the Neurotransparency Doctrine and Specification as binding standards.
- Approve workflow methods (AWO) and enforcement engines (CRI-CORE).
- Set requirements for metadata, logging, and attestation across all projects.
- Oversee exceptions, overrides, and governance logs when policies are relaxed.
Relationship to Other Layers
ARI sits between the epistemic foundation (Neurotransparency) and the operational layers:
- Doctrine & Spec (Layer 0): define why cognitive integrity is required and what must be enforced.
- AWO (Layer 2): implements ARI rules as concrete workflow procedures and artifacts.
- CRI-CORE (Layer 3): executes ARI policy mechanically as validators, logs, and provenance.
- Case Studies (Layer 4): demonstrate ARI-aligned research in practice.
Where to Read the ARI Charter
- Zenodo record: 10.5281/zenodo.17743096
- GitHub repository: Waveframe-Labs/Aurora-Research-Initiative