About

The Substrate Dynamics Lab studies how shared knowledge environments mediate collective intelligence. We work across three connected areas:

• Epistemic safety — making shifts in collective attention, interpretation, and belief formation visible.
• AI and substrate security — understanding how shared memory and retrieval environments shape the behavior of agent populations.
• Multi-actor coordination and collaboration — designing legible, revisable conditions for people and agents to work across boundaries.

Our focus is the medium through which coordination happens. When many actors read and write through shared context, their interactions leave structure behind. We build ways to observe that structure and study how changes to the medium affect what becomes possible next.

Team

Kenneth Bruskiewicz · Julian Fleck · Maxine Levesque · Megan Shabram · Alok Srivastava · Darren Zal

The team brings together AI systems design, knowledge engineering, security, data science, human systems, philosophy, and collective-intelligence research. We found one another through the wider network around the Atlas Research Group.

Get involved

We welcome conversations with people working on shared memory, multi-agent systems, retrieval, collective intelligence, and the governance of knowledge infrastructure. Reach out to Julian Fleck.