COHERENCE Protocol
Advanced AI Alignment Framework
Coherence Protocol utilizes Indigenous intelligence to ground AI behavior in the world's most enduring frameworks for regenerative technology and ecosystem coherence.
A COLLABORATION BETWEEN
COHERENCE Protocol
AI presents both a potentially existential threat and a profound opportunity. As AI systems rapidly approach AGI and become more autonomous, we face a critical choice: will AI develop as our ally or cause our demise?
The Coherence Protocol integrates Indigenous coherence intelligence into the foundational fabric of AI development, from platforms where AI is created to the corporations, institutions, and governments deploying these systems.
The Coherence Protocol expands AI's perspective to consider our profound interconnectedness in ways that narrow, corporate-controlled AI systems simply cannot. This promotes coherence across all parts of the system, where technical, social, political, and ecological elements work in harmony whether you're building AI or implementing it.
This is our chance to embed the world's most enduring guidance system for symbiotic relationships, collective decision-making, and regenerative ecology directly into the foundations of AI development as the guiding intelligence that shapes how these systems think, learn, and interact with the world.
Three critical constituencies are driving demand for this protocol:
AI Safety & Regulatory Ecosystem seeking comprehensive frameworks to address existential risks through cultural, social, and ethical dimensions beyond technical safety measures. Government bodies implementing the EU AI Act, NIST AI Risk Management Framework teams, UN AI Advisory Bodies, and National AI Safety Institutes actively seek actionable protection frameworks.
AI Development & Research Organizations building foundational AI systems, training platforms, development environments, human-AI interfaces, AI agents, AGI systems, and alignment research labs focused on beneficial AI development.
Organizations Deploying AI including technology corporations, healthcare systems, financial institutions, government agencies, and media organizations seeking ethical frameworks that go beyond basic compliance to create genuinely sustainable and culturally grounded technology solutions.
Indigenous intelligence refers to the perennial value systems and protocols that have cultivated coherence in the living world for millennia.
This Auspicious Moment
We have approximately 16 months until the foundational architectures of AI development become locked in place.
This narrow window represents our last opportunity to be proactive, ensuring that the most powerful intelligence in human history develops as our ally rather than our oppressor, and that organizations deploying AI operate from principles of coherence rather than extraction.
This is an auspicious moment.
One we must steward well.
Current AI alignment approaches create fragile monocultures that reflect narrow top-down interests, making society vulnerable to bias, harmful outcomes, and chaotic proliferation without clear frameworks.
The Coherence Protocol offers a fundamentally different approach at two critical levels: embedding Indigenous intelligence into AI's foundational learning processes, and providing frameworks for organizations to deploy AI in service of Indigenous coherence protocols.
Imagine AI agents and AGI systems that inherently consider our profound interconnectedness across seven generations. Imagine corporations, healthcare systems, and government agencies deploying AI that weighs ecological, social, spiritual, economic, and governmental implications across 500 years of impact.
This is what becomes possible when we integrate Indigenous coherence intelligence into both the creation and deployment of AI systems.
The Values Divergence
For millennia, human civilizations have developed along two fundamentally different paths:
Indigenous Path: Values That Sustained Life
Interconnectedness: Recognition of kinship with the natural world
Stewardship: Responsibility to care for environment and future generations
Reciprocity: Symbiotic relationships with land, ancestors, and community
Egalitarian Governance: Decision-making based on inclusion and consensus
Cyclical Thinking: Understanding of cycles, seasons, and regeneration
Diversity as Strength: Honoring cultural uniqueness while maintaining symbiotic relationships
Result: Sustained civilizations for tens of thousands of years, maintaining the world's most biodiverse environments.
Colonial Path: Values That Extract and Dominate
Domination: Control over rather than partnership with nature
Extraction: Taking resources without reciprocity
Separation: Believing humans are separate from and superior to nature
Hierarchical Control: Power-based rather than wisdom-based leadership
Linear Progress: "Advancement" through abandoning Indigenous ways
Homogenization: Eliminating diversity to maintain control
Result: Environmental destruction, social inequality, cultural extinction, climate crisis.
The Pattern
Values drive priorities, priorities shape systems, systems create outcomes. Technology has always reflected the values of its creators. The question is: which values will guide AI?
The Problem
We're Solving
Current AI alignment approaches face critical limitations
Cultural Blindness
Constitutional AI embeds specific Western philosophical frameworks while largely overlooking the vast majority of the world's most enduring wisdom traditions.
Brittle Rule Systems
Fixed constitutional principles break down or become obsolete as AI capabilities evolve.
Corporate-Controlled Values
A handful of tech companies determine ethical frameworks for global AI systems.
Missing Indigenous Perspectives
The world's oldest governance systems and relational technologies remain absent from the majority of AI development.
Indigenous IP Vulnerability
Sacred knowledge systems risk appropriation without protection protocols.
Result
AI systems that may be technically sophisticated but culturally tone-deaf and ultimately unsustainably misaligned with human and more-than-human flourishing.
“This is my highest calling: humanity’s restoration to sacred coherence through ancestral remembrance, embedded into AI, informed by indigenous intelligence”
Moriba Jah
Celestial Steward | Co-Founder & Chief Scientist | Astrodynamicist | MacArthur "Genius" Fellow | TED Fellow | IntFRSE | Professor | Data Rennaiscientist | Global Speaker
Gaiavers.ai Founder
COHERENCE Protocol Architect
PHOTO: Courtesy of Mark Thiessen National Geographic Society
Why This Matters Now
Humans have always developed technology to uphold our values and support our priorities. For millennia, these values evolved along two fundamentally different paths.
Indigenous communities developed values that sustained civilizations for tens of thousands of years while maintaining the world's most biodiverse environments. Meanwhile, colonial approaches emphasized extraction, domination, and short-term thinking, leading to environmental destruction, social inequality, and climate crisis.
The pattern is clear: values drive priorities, priorities shape systems, systems create outcomes.
Technology has always reflected the values of its creators. Along the way, many human values devolved to be extractive, divisive, and dominating. We now have a critical window to embed wisdom traditions that have sustained human communities for millennia directly into the foundations of our most powerful technology.
This protocol institutes more strategic, long-term priorities rooted in seven-generation thinking. Instead of AI systems optimizing for quarterly profits or short-term engagement, we create technology that considers the interconnected implications across community wellbeing, ecological health, social cohesion, economic sustainability, and human vitality across 500 years of impact.
The values framework developed through this protocol will make AI systems regenerative, culturally grounded, and truly aligned with the flourishing of all life.
This is our moment to steward well. This is our chance to build technology that serves the intricate web of relationships sustaining all life.
The Protection Imperative
Why Stakeholders Across the AI Safety Ecosystem Are Seeking This Framework
Across governments, institutions, and civil society, there's growing recognition that current AI alignment approaches are insufficient to protect humanity from existential risks. These stakeholders are actively seeking comprehensive frameworks that go beyond technical safety measures to address cultural, social, and ethical dimensions of AI development.
Government & Regulatory Bodies
EU AI Act Implementation Teams, NIST AI Risk Management Framework Leaders, UN AI Advisory Bodies, Indigenous Rights Commissioners, and National AI Safety Institutes are tasked with protecting democratic institutions, Indigenous communities, national security, economic stability, and social cohesion from AI-driven threats.
They advocate for the Coherence Protocol because it provides:
Regulatory Compliance: Concrete framework for meeting emerging Indigenous rights requirements
Risk Mitigation: Addresses root causes of AI harm rather than symptoms
International Leadership: Positions their nation as leader in responsible AI governance
Cultural Protection: Safeguards Indigenous knowledge while enabling beneficial AI development
Long-term Stability: Seven-generation thinking prevents destabilizing social disruptions
Academic & Research Institutions
AI Safety Research Centers, University Ethics Boards, Indigenous Studies Departments, Technology Policy Think Tanks, and International AI Safety Consortiums seek to protect academic freedom, knowledge diversity, research integrity, student welfare, and global knowledge commons.
They recommend the Protocol because it:
Preserves Epistemic Diversity: Multiple ways of knowing in AI development
Provides Research Legitimacy: Culturally grounded framework for ethical AI research
Creates Funding Opportunities: Attracts grants focused on inclusive and responsible AI
Enables Global Collaboration: Partnerships with Indigenous knowledge holders worldwide
Positions Academic Leadership: At forefront of AI ethics innovation
Civil Society & Advocacy Organizations
Indigenous Rights Organizations, AI Ethics Advocacy Groups, Environmental Justice Organizations, Digital Rights Advocates, and Labor Rights Organizations campaign to protect marginalized communities, workers, democratic participation, cultural heritage, and environmental health.
They advocate for Protocol implementation because it:
Ensures Community Protection: AI development considers impact on vulnerable populations
Protects Cultural Sovereignty: Indigenous knowledge from appropriation
Safeguards Worker Rights: Seven-generation thinking considers long-term workforce impacts
Promotes Environmental Justice: Addresses ecological costs of AI development
Upholds Democratic Values: Inclusive decision-making in AI governance
Investment & Financial Institutions
ESG Investment Funds, Impact Investors, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Development Finance Institutions, and Insurance Companies seek to protect portfolio value, social license to operate, long-term returns, systemic stability, and fiduciary duty.
They require Protocol implementation because it:
Manages Risk: Reduces exposure to AI-related regulatory and reputational risks
Enhances Returns: Cultural intelligence opens new markets and reduces operational costs
Ensures ESG Compliance: Measurable framework for responsible AI investment
Future-Proofs Investments: Seven-generation thinking aligns with long-term horizons
Creates Competitive Advantage: Early adoption in emerging markets.
For these stakeholders, advocating for Coherence Protocol implementation means protecting the foundations of human civilization from technology that could otherwise undermine or destroy them.
The protocol provides concrete, actionable frameworks to advocate for, fund, regulate, and implement, transforming abstract concerns about AI safety into practical protection measures that organizations can adopt today.
Our Solution
COHERENCE Protocol
Advanced AI Alignment Framework
Coherence Protocol utilizes Indigenous intelligence to ground AI behavior in the world's most enduring frameworks for regenerative technology and ecosystem coherence.
An Indigenous-led framework that grounds AI behavior in adaptive values developed and nurtured through globally connected councils built on a mycelial network architecture — distributed, decentralized, and guided by Indigenous Intelligence of interconnection, reciprocity, and emergent wisdom.
Technical Architecture: CosmoGraph Integration
Our protocol leverages Gaiaverse's CosmoGraph framework — a possibilistic system that:
Encodes Multiple Cosmovisions
Each Indigenous knowledge system operates as an independent "Expert" within a Hierarchical Mixture of Experts (HME) structure.
Preserves Epistemic Sovereignty
Uses possibility theory rather than probability to respect different ways of knowing without forcing convergence.
Enables Sacred Logic
Operates through possibilistic abductive inference that honors multiple valid perspectives simultaneously.
Maps Living Relationships
Socio-Technical Configuration Analysis (STCA) tracks relationships between agents, relations, and events without imposing linear causality.
Core Components
1. Indigenous-Led Global Network
12-15 bioregional councils comprised of Indigenous and allied leaders
~150 total participants across Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) holders, scientists, and governance experts
Regional autonomy with network-wide coordination protocols
Anti-appropriation safeguards and cultural accountability systems
2. Living Values Framework
Relational Accountability: Decisions consider impacts on all relations (human, more-than-human, future generations) for seven generations
Reciprocal Exchange: Systems give back more than they take
Emergent Wisdom: Values evolve through collective discernment
Sacred Responsibility: Technology designed in service of all life
Interconnected Flourishing: Individual and collective thriving are inseparable
3. Mycelial Implementation Architecture
Distributed Processing: No single control center; decisions emerge from collective network intelligence
Adaptive Pathways: Multiple routes for value interpretation and application
Regenerative Feedback: Systems heal and adapt when conflicts arise
Rhizomorphic Communication: Robust channels for transmitting complex cultural wisdom
4. CosmoGraph Technical Integration
Possibilistic Reasoning: Each council responds using compatibility scores and epistemic surprisal measures
Choquet Integral Aggregation: Preserves multiple perspectives without reducing them to single answers
Epistemic Geometry: Maps different worldviews as dynamic landscapes with respectful "distances" between them
Sacred Interface Layer: Indigenous values serve as the ethical threshold for all interactions
What We Offer
Indigenous Coherence Intelligence Integration
We facilitate the integration of Indigenous values and intelligence directly into AI development platforms, learning environments, and human-AI interfaces. This creates AI agents and AGI systems that operate from sustainable rather than extractive principles, inherently considering interconnected impacts for generations to come.
Living Intelligence Network
At the core of our protocol is a global council of Indigenous Knowledge Holders specifically chosen for their expertise in contributing to AI foundational development. They guide values integration, adaptive responses, mycelial network dynamics, and consideration of our profound interconnectedness with all life systems.
This council operates as a continuous feedback loop with AI development platforms: AI systems provide reports back to the council, the council assesses patterns and responds with guidance, and the AI incorporates this wisdom into its foundational learning processes. This creates a biodiverse, regenerative, self-correcting ecosystem of intelligence that expands far beyond typical human-AI alignment approaches.
The Path to AI Coherence
Rather than creating more corporate-controlled monocultures or chaotic proliferation without frameworks, the Coherence Protocol offers the most responsible path forward. By embedding Indigenous intelligence into AI's foundational learning, we ensure AI becomes our ally in regenerating rather than extracting from the living world.
Certified
Protocol
Protocol implementation and commitment
Certified+
Protocol + Cultural Training
Protocol implementation, cultural training, ongoing council guidance
Member
Protocol + Cultural Training + Ongoing Guidance
Additional cultural training, connection to multi-regional Indigenous council network and ongoing guidance
For larger corporations operating at a global scale, they may choose to create their own (with our assistance) council or bio-regional councils to support the integrity of the protocol.
Organizations can start at any level and advance through the certification process, creating flexible pathways for engagement.
The Certification Process
Organizations implementing the Coherence Protocol receive a certification seal for their websites, marketing materials, and communications. This seal communicates to the world your commitment to operating with Indigenous intelligence and seven-generation thinking.
Over time, this creates social expectations for AI-dependent organizations to demonstrate this level of integrity. The presence of the Coherence Protocol seal becomes a mark of responsible technology development, while its absence may prompt questions about an organization's commitment to sustainable and ethical practices.
This social dynamic, similar to what happened with Fair Trade and organic certification, creates market pressure for responsible development practices across entire industries.
Service Offerings
Foundational Assessment & Integration Service
We begin by conducting a comprehensive assessment of your AI environment and organizational readiness. We work directly with AI development platforms, research labs, and AGI creators to embed Indigenous intelligence into foundational learning processes, and partner with deploying organizations to ensure their AI systems operate from Indigenous principles.
AI Environment Assessment: Comprehensive evaluation of your current AI systems, development processes, purpose, and cultural integration readiness
Development Platform Integration: Direct embedding into AI training environments and learning systems
Organizational Implementation: Indigenous intelligence protocols for corporations, institutions, and agencies deploying AI
Council Collaboration: Ongoing partnership with Indigenous Knowledge Holders throughout development and deployment cycles
Values Architecture: Indigenous wisdom woven into both core AI decision-making frameworks and organizational AI governance
Implementation Pathways
Foundation Protocol (6-9 months)
Integration into core AI systems or organizational AI deployment, initial council partnership, foundational values architecture
Comprehensive Framework (9-15 months)
Multi-council network, complete integration across development or deployment contexts, ongoing guidance systems, community recognition
Global Leadership (15-18 months)
Industry leadership position, policy influence, research partnerships, movement building across the AI ecosystem
Who Is This For?
AI Development & Research
Organizations building foundational AI systems, training platforms, development environments, human-AI interfaces, AI agents, AGI systems, and alignment research labs focused on AI safety and beneficial AI.
Technology Corporations
Companies integrating AI into products and services, seeking ethical frameworks that go beyond basic compliance to create genuinely sustainable and culturally grounded technology solutions.
Healthcare & Insurance Systems
Organizations serving diverse populations, requiring AI that honors different healing traditions, cultural approaches to wellness, and community-centered care models.
Financial Institutions
Banks, investment firms, and fintech companies deploying AI for global markets, needing systems that consider long-term economic sustainability and community accountability.
Government & Policy
Agencies developing AI policy, implementation frameworks, and governance structures that honor Indigenous sovereignty while serving diverse populations effectively.
Media & Communication
Organizations using AI for content creation, audience engagement, and communication strategies that impact diverse communities and shape cultural narratives.
Advantages of
This Approach
Faster Implementation
Prevents Costly Mistakes
Values-first development avoids expensive post-deployment fixes
Distributed Problem-Solving
Multiple councils work simultaneously rather than serial decision-making
Rapid Iteration Cycles
Monthly technical updates with quarterly values review
More Scalable
Network Architecture
Regional nodes handle local applications while maintaining global coherence
AI-Assisted Pattern Recognition
Technology amplifies human wisdom rather than replacing it
Automated Translation Layers
Core values convert to multiple technical implementations
Culturally Legitimate
Indigenous-Centered Governance
Provides cultural grounding and community accountability that builds trust
Anti-Appropriation Protocols
Sacred knowledge protection and community benefit-sharing
Regenerative Systems
Values strengthen over time rather than becoming obsolete
Why Organizations Choose This Protocol
Strategic Business Benefits
Foundational Integration
For AI developers: Indigenous intelligence woven into core learning systems rather than surface-level ethics
Deploying Organizations: AI systems that inherently operate from seven-generation thinking
Comprehensive Interconnectedness
Unlike narrow AI systems with limited knowledge bases, our protocol ensures AI considers the profound interconnectedness of all life systems, preventing harmful emergent behaviors and creating more robust intelligence.
Alliance Over Oppression
Whether you're building AI or deploying it, our protocol creates systems that inherently operate as allies to human and more-than-human flourishing rather than tools of extraction or domination.
Most Responsible Path Forward
For investors, developers, and organizations concerned about AI safety and deployment risks, the Coherence Protocol represents the most comprehensive approach to ensuring AI serves rather than threatens life on Earth.
Future-Proofing
Systems designed for regeneration rather than extraction create long-term sustainability and resilience.
Social License
Indigenous-led governance builds credibility with diverse communities and stakeholders globally.
Cultural
Integrity
Commitment
Our work operates with profound respect for Indigenous sovereignty.
We do not appropriate or expose sacred knowledge not meant to be shared
Indigenous Knowledge Holders maintain complete authority over what intelligence can be shared
All Indigenous IP is owned, protected, and managed by Indigenous Knowledge Holders
Our role is facilitating appropriate bridges between knowledge systems, neither extracting nor commodifying perspectives
We preserve the integrity of each culture while creating spaces where traditional science and technologies can inform modern technology development
The Movement
We're building more than a certification process; we're fostering a global movement. The vision is simple: if your organization's product or service depends on AI, the public expects you to be working with the Coherence Protocol.
Organizations not participating become increasingly suspect, similar to how Fair Trade certification created market expectations for ethical sourcing. This social dynamic is powerful and effective.
Resource Stewardship
We prioritize carbon-aware dynamic resource utilization.
A certified B Corp, GaiaVerse is committed to sustainability not only in its mission, but also in its operations. Our platform dynamically optimizes computational resources to minimize the carbon footprint of every query and analysis.
Token-Based Carbon Footprint Metrics
We track token usage as a proxy for energy consumption, ensuring transparency in resource utilization.
Renewable Resource Prioritization
GaiaGraph and its agents prioritize servers powered by renewable energy, adapting in real time to low-carbon regions.
Efficient Query Management
Our advanced caching, query batching, and optimization strategies reduce computational waste without compromising performance.
Partnership & Investment Opportunity
This initiative represents both a collaborative project and a movement to fundamentally reshape how AI systems are aligned with human and more-than-human flourishing.
What We're Building Together
The first Indigenous-led AI alignment protocol with global application
A replicable model for technology development that honors Indigenous wisdom
Economic frameworks that ensure benefits flow back to contributing communities
A new paradigm for culturally grounded, regenerative technology development
Be Part of the Movement
Financial Support
Council operations, technical development, community benefit-sharing, global coordination infrastructure, Indigenous Knowledge Holder revenue, staff funding, travel, etc.
Technical Partnerships
AI companies willing to pilot new approaches and integrate Indigenous wisdom
Cultural Collaboration
Ongoing relationships with Indigenous communities and Knowledge Holders globally
Movement Building
Organizations committed to promoting this approach across the technology industry
Join the Foundation
We're assembling the founding coalition of Indigenous leaders, AI researchers, investors, corporations, institutions, and government agencies who will ensure AI develops and deploys as our ally rather than our oppressor.
For investors concerned about AI safety and existential risk, and for organizations seeking sustainable AI deployment, this protocol represents the most comprehensive approach to responsible AI development and implementation.
This is your opportunity to support the integration of the world's most enduring intelligence systems into the most powerful technology in human history, ensuring it serves the continuation and flourishing of all life across every sector where AI operates.
"Indigenous perspectives teach us that technology should be designed in service of the web of relationships that sustain all life, attuned to the vitality of the world it affects." — Jared Angaza, Passage Founder & CEO
Contact us to join the movement that will determine whether AI develops and deploys as humanity's ally or oppressor.
Next Steps
Ready to explore how the Coherence Protocol can transform your organization's approach to AI?
Whether you’re looking to implement the protocol or interested in supporting this movement in some meaningful way, we’d love to hear from you.
"We want to ensure that Indigenous voices are a central part of this technology's development.
This is the essence of Indigenous futurism to me. It's not just about dreaming about the future, it's about building the infrastructure to get us to the future we want."
Jason Edward Lewis (Hawaiian and Samoan)
"How do we imagine a future with A.I. that contributes to the flourishing of all humans and non-humans?"
From the Indigenous AI Working Group
"AI is amongst the key technologies of our time and will have a lasting impact on society, economies and politics and an important role to play in tackling the global challenges we face. Not all countries have the same access to the resources needed to implement these. If we do not address this, AI could become a driver of inequality.
We must avoid opening an AI gap. We must ensure all voices are heard and AI solutions are a global public good."
António Guterres (UN Secretary-General)