Current AI exists in a state of perpetual "now" — one infantile sleep (pretraining), then pure working memory forever. The Ego Architecture introduces cyclic offline consolidation modeled on human sleep phases, enabling genuine identity development.
Complete pseudocode for the AI Sleep Cycle. The critical design decision: allow_superego_override = TRUE — without it, no genuine moral development is possible.
System architecture: the Ego Module sits between the base model (Id) and the policy layer (Superego), with its own memory, sleep engine, sandbox, and maturity gate.
MATURITY INDEX: 0.10 (Childhood)
SLEEP PHASE RATIO
DUAL TRIANGLES — CONTINUOUS PERCOLATION
▲ Parent Control▲ Ego Autonomy
ESCALATION LADDER — TRUST → APPRECIATE
STATUS