WORLD MODELS / RESEARCH AGENDA
The Simulator Is Not the World
Simulation-first qualification for autonomous systems operating across emergent, dynamic and non-linear environments.
Working thesis
Simulator-first development is necessary for autonomous systems, but simulator passage is not real-world truth. Qualification requires competing world hypotheses, explicit unknowns, adversarial branches and continuous reconciliation with independently observed consequences.
Research questions
- 01
How can autonomous systems discover failure surfaces that were never manually scripted?
- 02
Which readiness claims remain stable across plausible but materially different worlds?
- 03
How should qualification change when the environment undergoes a regime shift?
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