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The Intelligence Index for AI Security and Human Sovereignty

49 research domains across defense, governance, identity and cognition. Navigate the business landscape of the AI-agent era. Curated by humans, assisted by machines.

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Tier 1 Priority
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The Research Standard for AI Security & Human Sovereignty

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Research Topics
Across 12 macro layers of AI security and sovereignty
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Curated pathways through the index, tailored to your mission-critical priorities.

🛡️

CISO & Security Leaders

AI threat landscape, vendor evaluation, board-ready insights

7 curated topics →
⚙️

CTO & Engineering

Agent architecture, runtime security, infrastructure decisions

5 curated topics →
📐

CPO & Product Leaders

Identity systems, human verification, UX of trust

5 curated topics →
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Investors & VCs

Market sizing, startup landscape, opportunity mapping

4 curated topics →
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Policy & Governance

Regulatory frameworks, standards, compliance requirements

5 curated topics →
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Founders & Builders

Business opportunities, white spaces, go-to-market intelligence

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FIRI Super-Index

L1

AI Security

DEFEND 4 topics
T1 FIRI-101

Personal AI Firewall Systems

Person-centered protection layer across communication, web, voice, video, AI chats and agent interactions.

RDY
5/5
IMP
5/5
★ 25
personal AI firewallAI scam detectionprompt injection
T2 FIRI-102

Agent Intrusion Detection

Detection of compromised, drifting or abused AI agents through tool usage, behavior patterns and execution traces.

RDY
3/5
IMP
5/5
★ 15
agent intrusion detectionagent hijackingtool misuse
T1 FIRI-103

Model Abuse & Jailbreak Defense

Defense against jailbreaks, prompt injection, policy bypass, model abuse and unwanted model behavior.

RDY
4/5
IMP
4/5
★ 16
jailbreak defenseprompt injection detectionLLM guardrails
T1 FIRI-104

AI Supply Chain Security

Securing models, datasets, plugins, agent tools, dependencies, weights and integrations against manipulation and provenance risks.

RDY
4/5
IMP
5/5
★ 20
AI supply chain securitymodel provenancedataset poisoning
L2

Agent Governance & Economy

GOVERN 5 topics
T1 FIRI-201

Agent Governance Control Plane

Central control and policy layer for agents with roles, boundaries, approvals, logging and escalation.

RDY
4/5
IMP
5/5
★ 20
agent governanceAI control planeagent policy engine
T1 FIRI-202

Agent Permissions & Delegation

Permission, delegation and access systems for agents acting on behalf of humans or organizations.

RDY
4/5
IMP
4/5
★ 16
agent permissionsdelegated authorityAI authorization
T2 FIRI-203

Agent Brokerage

Marketplace and brokerage layers through which agents find tasks, services, data, counterparties and prices.

RDY
3/5
IMP
4/5
★ 12
agent brokerageagent marketplaceAI service brokerage
T2 FIRI-204

Agent Insurance

Insurance and risk models for damages, wrong decisions, data loss and liability caused by autonomous agents.

RDY
3/5
IMP
4/5
★ 12
AI liability insuranceagent insuranceautonomous AI liability
T1 FIRI-205

Agent Accountability & Audit

Auditable accountability for agent actions, including execution traces, decision logs, attribution and explainability.

RDY
4/5
IMP
5/5
★ 20
agent auditAI accountabilityexecution trace
L3

Human Verification

VERIFY 4 topics
T1 FIRI-301

Proof-of-Human

Technical and social systems proving that an interaction, identity or action originates from a human.

RDY
4/5
IMP
5/5
★ 20
proof of humanproof of personhoodhuman verification
T2 FIRI-302

Human-Only Networks

Digital spaces, communities and transaction systems that only allow verified humans.

RDY
3/5
IMP
3/5
★ 9
human-only networksverified human communitybot-free social networks
T1 FIRI-303

Personhood Credentials

Digital credentials of personhood that must be portable, revocable, privacy-preserving and interoperable.

RDY
4/5
IMP
4/5
★ 16
personhood credentialsverifiable credentialsDID
T2 FIRI-304

Post-Quantum Identity

Long-term secure identity and signature systems against future quantum attacks.

RDY
3/5
IMP
4/5
★ 12
post-quantum identityquantum-safe signaturesPQC identity
L4

Identity & Legacy

VERIFY 4 topics
T3 FIRI-401

Soul Binding Tokens

Non-transferable identity and belonging markers for reputation, roles, membership and ethical self-binding.

RDY
2/5
IMP
4/5
★ 8
soulbound tokensnon-transferable credentialsreputation tokens
T3 FIRI-402

AI Identity Authority

Registration and trust systems for AI agents, models and synthetic entities.

RDY
2/5
IMP
4/5
★ 8
AI identityagent registrymodel registry
T3 FIRI-403

Human Legacy AI

AI systems that continue personal biographies, knowledge, values and voices after death or handover.

RDY
2/5
IMP
3/5
★ 6
legacy AIdigital afterlifeAI avatar
T2 FIRI-404

Reputation Continuity Layer

Infrastructure making reputation traceable across platforms, human identities, agents and organizations.

RDY
3/5
IMP
3/5
★ 9
reputation portabilityidentity reputationtrust score
L5

Reality Authentication

VERIFY 4 topics
T1 FIRI-501

Reality Verification

Systems checking whether content, identities, events and claims are real, synthetic, manipulated or unclear.

RDY
4/5
IMP
4/5
★ 16
reality verificationsynthetic content detectiondeepfake verification
T3 FIRI-502

Truth Infrastructure

Institutional, technical and social infrastructure for evaluating and tracing truth claims.

RDY
2/5
IMP
4/5
★ 8
truth infrastructuretrust layerfact provenance
T1 FIRI-503

Synthetic Media Forensics

Court-ready analysis, evidence preservation and attribution of synthetic or manipulated media.

RDY
4/5
IMP
4/5
★ 16
synthetic media forensicsdeepfake forensicsAI image detection
T1 FIRI-504

Provenance & Content Credentials

Standards and technical signatures that make origin, edits and ownership of digital content traceable.

RDY
4/5
IMP
4/5
★ 16
C2PAcontent credentialsmedia provenance
L6

AI vs AI Defense

DEFEND 4 topics
T2 FIRI-601

Defensive Agents

Autonomous or semi-autonomous defense agents for detection, analysis, containment and response.

RDY
3/5
IMP
4/5
★ 12
defensive AI agentsautonomous cyber defenseAI SOC agent
T1 FIRI-602

Autonomous SOC & Response Agents

SOC automation through agents that triage alerts, collect evidence, trigger playbooks and support incident response.

RDY
4/5
IMP
4/5
★ 16
autonomous SOCAI SIEMAI incident response
T1 FIRI-603

AI Red Team as a Service

Services and platforms for systematic red-teaming of AI apps, agents, models and workflows.

RDY
4/5
IMP
4/5
★ 16
AI red teamLLM red teamingagent red teaming
T2 FIRI-604

Agentic Threat Simulation

Simulation environments where AI agents test attack chains, social engineering, exfiltration and defense scenarios.

RDY
3/5
IMP
4/5
★ 12
agentic threat simulationAI attack simulationcyber range AI
L7

Cognitive Sovereignty

HUMAN CORE 4 topics
T2 FIRI-701

Cognitive Defense

Defense against manipulation, persuasion attacks, attention capture, cognitive overload and algorithmic steering.

RDY
3/5
IMP
5/5
★ 15
cognitive defensecognitive sovereigntypersuasion attacks
T3 FIRI-702

Cognitive Training

Training systems that make humans more resilient against manipulation, deepfakes, scam patterns and AI persuasion.

RDY
2/5
IMP
3/5
★ 6
cognitive resilience trainingprebunkingAI literacy
T2 FIRI-703

Persuasion Integrity Index

Measurement system for persuasive, manipulative, emotional or coercive patterns in AI-assisted communication.

RDY
3/5
IMP
4/5
★ 12
persuasion detectionmanipulation scoreAI persuasion
T2 FIRI-704

Attention Sovereignty Protocols

Standards, interfaces and protection mechanisms that treat human attention as a protected resource.

RDY
2/5
IMP
5/5
★ 10
attention sovereigntyattention rightsattention protection
L8

AI Commerce

GOVERN 4 topics
T1 FIRI-801

Autonomous Buyer Agents

Agents that search, compare and purchase products, services, offers and contracts on behalf of humans or companies.

RDY
4/5
IMP
4/5
★ 16
autonomous buyer agentsAI shopping agentprocurement agent
T2 FIRI-802

Autonomous Sales

AI agents for acquisition, advice, offer creation, negotiation, follow-up and customer success.

RDY
3/5
IMP
3/5
★ 9
AI sales agentautonomous salesAI SDR
T2 FIRI-803

Agent-to-Agent Markets

Transaction spaces where agents directly trade, negotiate, buy data or book services with other agents.

RDY
3/5
IMP
4/5
★ 12
agent-to-agent commerceA2A marketsAI agent payments
T1 FIRI-804

AI Procurement Governance

Rules, audits and evaluation logic for AI-assisted procurement, vendor selection and automated contract preparation.

RDY
4/5
IMP
4/5
★ 16
AI procurementprocurement governancevendor selection AI
L9

Neural Interface Layer

HUMAN CORE 4 topics
T4 FIRI-901

Neural Interface Security

Security of brain-computer interfaces, neural data streams, implants, wearables and neural signal processing.

RDY
1/5
IMP
4/5
★ 4
neural interface securityBCI securityneurosecurity
T4 FIRI-902

Cognitive Augmentation

Technologies extending human memory, perception, analysis and decision-making capacity.

RDY
1/5
IMP
3/5
★ 3
cognitive augmentationAI cognitive assistantBCI augmentation
T3 FIRI-903

Neural Data Rights

Ownership, consent, deletion, use and protection of brain and cognitive signal data.

RDY
2/5
IMP
4/5
★ 8
neural data rightsneurorightsbrain data ownership
T3 FIRI-904

BCI Consent & Boundary Layer

Consent, boundary and security logic for direct or indirect neurotechnological interfaces.

RDY
1/5
IMP
5/5
★ 5
BCI consentneurotech consentmental boundary
L10

Privacy & Data Defense

DEFEND 4 topics
T2 FIRI-1001

AI Privacy Shields

Protection systems against unwanted AI training, profiling, data harvesting and inference-based re-identification.

RDY
3/5
IMP
3/5
★ 9
AI privacy shieldanti AI scrapingdata exfiltration prevention
T3 FIRI-1002

Shadow & Decoy Systems

Deception, honeypot, decoy and data-obfuscation systems against AI-based attackers and scrapers.

RDY
2/5
IMP
3/5
★ 6
AI deceptiondata decoyhoneypot AI
T2 FIRI-1003

Consent Infrastructure

Granular consent and usage logic for AI training, data use, agent access and personalized models.

RDY
3/5
IMP
4/5
★ 12
AI consentdata consent infrastructuretraining consent
T2 FIRI-1004

Personal Data Vaults

Personal or organizational data vaults through which people control, license and release data.

RDY
3/5
IMP
4/5
★ 12
personal data vaultdata walletdata sovereignty
L11

Human-Only Preservation

HUMAN CORE 4 topics
T4 FIRI-1101

Human-Only Services

Services where human presence, responsibility, empathy or craft is an explicit part of the value.

RDY
2/5
IMP
2/5
★ 4
human-only serviceshuman premium servicesAI-free service
T4 FIRI-1102

AI-Free Zones

Physical or digital spaces where AI use is excluded, restricted or made visible.

RDY
1/5
IMP
2/5
★ 2
AI-free zonesAI-free spacesno AI policy
T3 FIRI-1103

Human Craft Certification

Certification and labeling of human labor, creativity, craftsmanship and authorship.

RDY
2/5
IMP
3/5
★ 6
human made certificationhuman authoredAI-free art
T2 FIRI-1104

Child & Family Cognitive Protection

Protection of children and families against manipulative, addictive or identity-distorting AI systems.

RDY
3/5
IMP
5/5
★ 15
AI child protectionfamily AI safetycognitive protection children
L12

Agent Infrastructure

GOVERN 4 topics
T2 FIRI-1201

Agent OS

Operating-system-like platforms for agents, workflows, tool use, memory, policies and execution.

RDY
3/5
IMP
3/5
★ 9
agent OSAI agent operating systemagent framework
T3 FIRI-1202

Agent Hosting

Infrastructure for running, scaling, isolating, monitoring and cost-controlling autonomous agents.

RDY
3/5
IMP
2/5
★ 6
agent hostingagent runtime hostingAI workflow hosting
T2 FIRI-1203

Agent Interoperability Standards

Standards, protocols and interfaces through which agents communicate, delegate and transact across platforms.

RDY
3/5
IMP
4/5
★ 12
agent interoperabilityMCPA2A protocol
T2 FIRI-1204

Sovereignty Kernel / Right to History

Verifiable, tamper-resistant execution layer with immutable history, boundary enforcement and audit logic.

RDY
3/5
IMP
5/5
★ 15
sovereignty kernelright to historyverifiable agent execution

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