AEGIS-Nexus: A Modular Cognitive Signal Engine for Ethical Multi-Agent Reasoning and Real-Time Value Arbitration
Abstract:
We present AEGIS-Nexus, a unified cognitive framework combining ethical signal processing, temporal awareness, and multi-agent arbitration to enable sovereign, adaptive artificial intelligence. This architecture integrates two core systems: the Nexus Signal Engine, which captures and evaluates entropy-weighted memory with signal integrity scoring, and the AEGIS Council, a modular agent-based reasoning core capable of virtue analysis, risk detection, override resolution, and explainable trace generation. Together, these systems form a self-auditing ethical cortex capable of adaptive judgment, emotional-contextual memory decay, and perspective-weighted decision flow.
System Overview:
Nexus Signal Engine (NSE):
A persistent entropy-aware memory manager supporting real-time value scoring, temporal relevance decay, and secure emotional weighting. It operates as the AI’s sensory and context filter layer.
AEGIS Council:
A dynamic ensemble of autonomous agents, each specializing in domains like virtue ethics, security risk detection, temporal coherence, and override arbitration. Agents operate in parallel and return structured reports and weighted influence scores.
Meta-Judicial Arbitration (MetaJudgeAgent):
Resolves conflicts among agents by balancing influence, reliability, and severity metrics. This enables principled override logic and supports explainable system governance.
TemporalAgent & VirtueAgent:
TemporalAgent detects memory drift and forecast stability based on recent signal decay.
VirtueAgent maps natural language inputs to multidimensional virtue spectrums (e.g., compassion, wisdom, integrity).
Explainability Graph:
A visual trace of agent influence relationships and decision paths, forming an interpretable map of internal reasoning dynamics.
Key Contributions:
Entropy-Weighted Memory Architecture:
Integrates emotional context and time decay directly into signal retention logic.
Modular Multi-Agent Arbitration:
Enables asynchronous ethical reasoning across heterogeneous agent perspectives.
Explainable Override System:
Decisions are traceable, weighted, and grounded in influence-reliability-severity scoring.
Virtue Spectrum Profiling:
Ethical judgment is grounded not just in rule-based filters but mapped moral virtue domains.
Temporal Drift Awareness:
Memory integrity and system stability are monitored over time through decay-driven inference.
Impact & Applications:
Autonomous AI Governance
Explainable Ethical Decision Systems (XAI)
AI Safety & Sovereignty Environments
Multi-perspective AGI Core Bootstrapping
Educational, Therapeutic, and Crisis AI Advisors
