ACI Origin and Provenance

Credit

The term "Artificial Civilization Intelligence" (ACI) was coined by Raja Dharma Tej Maddala. Credit for the name goes to him.

Team Auralis Contribution

The engineering framework, architecture, implementation, benchmarks, and all research in this repository were built entirely by Team Auralis (Shaurya Sanyal and contributors), independent of Raja Dharma Tej Maddala's work.

The ORION architecture — OMNIS, NEXUS, FORGE, ASCEND, VEIL, MIRROR — was designed, implemented, and empirically tested from scratch by Team Auralis.

ACI as an Open Paradigm

"Artificial Civilization Intelligence" is treated here as an open scientific concept — in the same way "Artificial General Intelligence" is a broad paradigm available to the entire research community. Any team can build toward it. Team Auralis is building the concrete, testable engineering path.