Research

Strategic Paper Series

Primary-source, adversarially fact-checked analysis of frontier AI governance, written from the Global South. Every paper ships bilingually in English and Spanish.

Part III · Solution

The Andean Protocol

A complete institutional blueprint for LATAM-AISI: a Latin American frontier-AI safety and evaluation institute, financed through a lithium-for-compute mechanism that converts the region’s mineral leverage into evaluation capability and a seat at the frontier table.

June 2026EN · ES
Part II · Pattern

From Spud to Scarcity

The Global South supplies the lithium that powers frontier AI infrastructure while remaining outside both frontier cyber-defense access and the forums where frontier AI is governed. This paper documents the pattern with primary-source data.

June 2026EN · ES
Strategic Paper

The Spud Mirror

A strategic reading of OpenAI’s then-unreleased “Spud” model: what the next frontier release would reveal about capability concentration, and what it would mean for regions outside the allocation channels.

May 2026EN · ES
Part I · Problem

Claude Mythos: The Model Too Dangerous to Release

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos is available only to approved organizations. Twelve partners were named. Zero are from the Global South. This paper asks the governance question no one else was asking from the South.

April 2026EN · ES