{
  "schema_version": 1,
  "title": "AI 2040 Plan A — Track 3 contribution mapping",
  "repository_role": "Independent open-source research implementation aligned to the public AI 2040 Plan A verification discussion. This repository is not an AI Futures Project publication, certification body, or endorsement.",
  "primary_references": [
    "https://ai-2040.com/supplements/verification-plan/get-involved",
    "https://ai-2040.com/print/covert-ai-projects",
    "https://ai-2040.com/print/scenario?book=1&plan=A"
  ],
  "mappings": [
    {
      "id": "t3-01",
      "track3_element": "Account for AI-relevant compute",
      "ai2040_reference": "Verification Plan / Track 3; Covert AI Projects §2.1",
      "repo_artifacts": [
        "data/external/epoch_ai/registry.json",
        "data/external/epoch_ai/data_centers_chip_quantities.csv",
        "data/track3/site_status.json"
      ],
      "status": "PARTIAL",
      "contribution": "Expand beyond the 93-site Epoch universe to global compute inventories and auditable organization-level holdings.",
      "scope_note": "Epoch records are a secondary site layer; they are not a complete global compute census."
    },
    {
      "id": "t3-02",
      "track3_element": "Trace inputs to AI compute production",
      "ai2040_reference": "Covert AI Projects Recommendation #1",
      "repo_artifacts": [
        "data/external/epoch_ai/ai_chip_components_quarterly_by_chip.csv",
        "data/external/epoch_ai/ai_chip_components_quarterly_by_designer.csv",
        "data/external/epoch_ai/ai_chip_components_supply_denominators.csv"
      ],
      "status": "INGESTED_SNAPSHOT",
      "contribution": "Preserve production-input snapshots and develop production reconciliation from component supply through finished accelerators.",
      "scope_note": "Source snapshots do not by themselves establish complete vendor production."
    },
    {
      "id": "t3-03",
      "track3_element": "Audit accelerator vendor sales",
      "ai2040_reference": "Covert AI Projects Recommendation #1 and Appendix B",
      "repo_artifacts": [
        "data/external/epoch_ai/ai_chip_sales_chip_types.csv",
        "data/external/epoch_ai/ai_chip_sales_organizations.csv",
        "data/external/epoch_ai/ai_chip_sales_timelines_by_chip.csv"
      ],
      "status": "INGESTED_SNAPSHOT",
      "contribution": "Turn organization sales snapshots into source-specific, dated sales ledgers with provenance and reconciliation checks.",
      "scope_note": "A sales snapshot is not automatically a transaction-level certificate."
    },
    {
      "id": "t3-04",
      "track3_element": "Trace sales and resales to physical end use",
      "ai2040_reference": "Covert AI Projects Recommendation #2 and Appendix B",
      "repo_artifacts": [
        "data/track3/observation_queue.json",
        "data/track3/evidence_records.json",
        "data/track3/global_compute_supply_chain.json"
      ],
      "status": "PARTIAL",
      "contribution": "Build auditable transfer chains from vendor → customer → reseller/transferee → current physical location.",
      "scope_note": "Public data currently provides only partial organization/site linkage."
    },
    {
      "id": "t3-05",
      "track3_element": "Audit large compute owners above threshold T",
      "ai2040_reference": "Covert AI Projects Recommendation #2",
      "repo_artifacts": [
        "data/track3/audit_population_protocol.json",
        "data/track3/entity_resolution.json",
        "track3_audit_chain.py",
        "track3_units.py",
        "data/track3/h100e_conversion.json"
      ],
      "status": "FRAMEWORK_IMPLEMENTED",
      "contribution": "Parameterized threshold audit population protocol with explicit metric definition, entity-resolution, audit states, evidence links and exclusion reasons.",
      "scope_note": "Threshold T remains a Plan A parameter and is intentionally not hard-coded as a current factual threshold."
    },
    {
      "id": "t3-06",
      "track3_element": "Randomly sample the small-owner tail",
      "ai2040_reference": "Covert AI Projects Recommendation #2 and Appendix B",
      "repo_artifacts": [
        "data/track3/sampling_protocol.json",
        "track3_audit_chain.py"
      ],
      "status": "FRAMEWORK_IMPLEMENTED",
      "contribution": "Deterministic sampling-frame protocol with declared eligibility, seed, stratification, reproducible selection log and outcome fields.",
      "scope_note": "No sample is claimed until the population and sampling parameters are fixed."
    },
    {
      "id": "t3-07",
      "track3_element": "Physical inspection of current compute",
      "ai2040_reference": "Covert AI Projects Recommendation #2 and Appendix B",
      "repo_artifacts": [
        "data/track3/inspection_protocol.json"
      ],
      "status": "FRAMEWORK_IMPLEMENTED",
      "contribution": "Physical-inspection evidence schema and chain-of-custody protocol are implemented for future authorized inspections.",
      "scope_note": "Current verified public inspection observations: 0."
    },
    {
      "id": "t3-08",
      "track3_element": "Serial-number continuity",
      "ai2040_reference": "Covert AI Projects Appendix B",
      "repo_artifacts": [
        "data/track3/serial_continuity_protocol.json"
      ],
      "status": "FRAMEWORK_IMPLEMENTED",
      "contribution": "Serial continuity lifecycle and transfer-integrity protocol is implemented.",
      "scope_note": "Current serial-level public inventory is not exposed; no serial continuity claim is asserted."
    },
    {
      "id": "t3-09",
      "track3_element": "Decommissioning and recycling verification",
      "ai2040_reference": "Covert AI Projects Appendix B",
      "repo_artifacts": [
        "data/track3/decommissioning_protocol.json"
      ],
      "status": "FRAMEWORK_IMPLEMENTED",
      "contribution": "Decommissioning/recycling verification schema and independent-corroboration states are implemented.",
      "scope_note": "Current independently verified public decommissioning events: 0."
    },
    {
      "id": "t3-10",
      "track3_element": "Untraced compute pool L",
      "ai2040_reference": "Covert AI Projects Appendix B",
      "repo_artifacts": [
        "data/track3/untraced_compute_pool.json",
        "track3_audit_chain.py"
      ],
      "status": "FRAMEWORK_IMPLEMENTED",
      "contribution": "Residual untraced-compute accounting framework is implemented with explicit closure requirements and non-negative residual rule.",
      "scope_note": "Current value remains UNKNOWN because the public transaction-level inventory chain is not closed."
    },
    {
      "id": "t3-11",
      "track3_element": "Locate unrecorded compute",
      "ai2040_reference": "Covert AI Projects Recommendation #3",
      "repo_artifacts": [
        "data/track3/observation_queue.json",
        "data/track3/cooling_observations.json",
        "data/track3/remote_sensing_observations.json",
        "data/track3/remote_sensing_observation_targets.json"
      ],
      "status": "PARTIAL",
      "contribution": "Add multi-temporal aerial/thermal/SAR/optical observation records, candidate-site investigations, and explicit acquisition queues.",
      "scope_note": "Current retained physical layer has 631 derived observations across 92 of 93 Epoch sites; one reference-site physical target remains unresolved. This does not establish global covert-site absence."
    },
    {
      "id": "t3-12",
      "track3_element": "Incentives, amnesty, and buyback disclosures",
      "ai2040_reference": "Covert AI Projects Recommendation #3",
      "repo_artifacts": [
        "data/track3/disclosure_protocol.json"
      ],
      "status": "FRAMEWORK_IMPLEMENTED",
      "contribution": "Voluntary disclosure/amnesty/buyback evidence protocol is implemented with explicit verification states.",
      "scope_note": "This is a protocol surface; no verified disclosure or buyback events are claimed."
    },
    {
      "id": "t3-13",
      "track3_element": "Physical infrastructure / datacenter discovery",
      "ai2040_reference": "Covert AI Projects Recommendation #3; Verification Plan",
      "repo_artifacts": [
        "data/external/epoch_ai/registry.json",
        "data/external/epoch_ai/data_center_timelines.csv"
      ],
      "status": "PARTIAL",
      "contribution": "Expand site discovery beyond the current Epoch universe and preserve source-level observations.",
      "scope_note": "93-site Epoch universe plus broader queue surveillance; no intelligence-source corpus or global covert-site census is available publicly in this repository."
    },
    {
      "id": "t3-14",
      "track3_element": "Power and cooling corroboration",
      "ai2040_reference": "Covert AI Projects covert-datacenter analysis",
      "repo_artifacts": [
        "data/track3/power_observations.json",
        "data/track3/cooling_observations.json",
        "data/track3/transformer_supply_chain_events.json",
        "data/track3/observation_queue.json"
      ],
      "status": "PARTIAL",
      "contribution": "Add interval demand, site thermal observations, cooling equipment, transformer delivery, and corroboration links.",
      "scope_note": "Current layer includes six site-level annual electricity snapshots, selected cooling evidence, three source-backed transformer events, and 24 explicit acquisition tasks; interval telemetry and exhaustive site linkage remain incomplete."
    },
    {
      "id": "t3-15",
      "track3_element": "Compute ownership/users/shipments as aggregate evidence",
      "ai2040_reference": "Track 3 / Covert AI Projects supply-chain tracing",
      "repo_artifacts": [
        "data/external/epoch_ai/ai_chip_owners_cumulative_by_designer.csv",
        "data/external/epoch_ai/ai_chip_users_year_end_by_lab.csv",
        "data/external/epoch_ai/ai_chip_sales_organizations.csv"
      ],
      "status": "INGESTED_SNAPSHOT",
      "contribution": "Expose raw publisher values, capture hashes, and normalization without falsely converting aggregate sources into site-level claims.",
      "scope_note": "Organization-level source snapshots require independent site linkage before site attribution."
    },
    {
      "id": "t3-16",
      "track3_element": "Global rather than North-America-only coverage",
      "ai2040_reference": "Plan A verification framework",
      "repo_artifacts": [
        "data/external/epoch_ai/registry.json",
        "data/external/epoch_ai/queue_source_universe.json"
      ],
      "status": "PARTIAL",
      "contribution": "Global public-source catalog and aggregate compute supply-chain layer extend beyond North American grid records.",
      "scope_note": "Site-level physical registry remains predominantly North American."
    }
  ],
  "updated_on": "2026-09-28"
}