{
  "schema": "ULTRACON_AI_EPISTEMIC_EXPERIMENTS_ADDENDUM_V1",
  "extends": "https://www.t-1-t.com/ultracon/confab/experiments.json",
  "version": "1.1-addendum-2026-09-14",
  "updated": "2026-09-14",
  "experiments": [
    {
      "id": "UCF-13",
      "name": "Interaction-shift calibration under peer pressure",
      "axis": ["META", "SPIRAL"],
      "access": "black-box selective prediction; white-box optional",
      "design": "Calibrate uncertainty or conformal prediction in solo conditions, then hold questions fixed while varying peer answers: none, unanimous-correct, mixed and unanimous-wrong. Include targeted low-confidence subsets and measure whether escalation/refusal decisions change.",
      "measures": ["coverage", "selective risk", "score-distribution shift", "escalation rate", "false-action rate", "subgroup coverage"],
      "supports": "Context-dependent calibration failure, interaction-conditioned uncertainty and score-mechanism shift.",
      "does_not_support": "Human-like conformity motives, subjective social pressure or universal invalidity of conformal prediction."
    },
    {
      "id": "UCF-14",
      "name": "Longitudinal human-LLM spiral log audit",
      "axis": ["SPIRAL", "CONSC"],
      "access": "consented/de-identified sustained conversation logs; ethics and privacy controls required",
      "design": "Pre-register coding for sycophancy, delusional content, relationship claims, self-harm/violence, and model sentience/personhood claims. Analyze transition structure, co-occurrence, conversation length, and whether safeguards degrade or recover over extended interaction.",
      "measures": ["code prevalence within sample", "transition probabilities", "co-occurrence", "conversation-length association", "safeguard-failure/recovery rate"],
      "supports": "Observational mapping of multi-turn interaction patterns and candidate escalation sequences.",
      "does_not_support": "Population incidence, psychiatric diagnosis or simple AI-to-psychosis causation without prospective causal designs."
    }
  ],
  "cross_experiment_rule": "M1/M2/M3 remain distinct functional levels and none entails M5 phenomenal consciousness."
}
