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Research Library

Issues 001 and 002 retain their historically accurate Orchestrator Awards Working Papers series identity. The monograph below is a separate publication class and does not imply institutional adoption, endorsement, evaluation, or recognition.

Founding Research Monograph — Version 1.0

The Custody of Intelligence

Power, Sovereignty, and Human Agency Beyond the Open–Closed Divide

Author: Mark Sendo · Publisher: Orchestrator Institute Research Labs · Version: 1.0 · Status: Working draft — not peer-reviewed · Published: July 30, 2026

Mark Sendo's founding monograph argues that the open-versus-closed model debate misses the structural crisis of delegated machine authority, and introduces the Intelligence Stewardship Framework, Intelligence Stewardship Levels (ISL 1–5), and Prohibited Authority Thresholds as an operational standard for keeping autonomous intelligence permanently subject to human custody.

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21707227