#!/usr/bin/env node /** * Publish blog post: "Beyond One Framework: Taonga-Centred Governance for AI Steering Vectors" * * Blog summary of STO-RES-0010 for agenticgovernance.digital. * Production was published via mongosh on 2026-02-09. * This script is kept for local dev insertion and as a record. * * Usage: * node scripts/publish-taonga-governance-blog-post.js # Insert into local tractatus_dev * MONGODB_URI=mongodb://localhost:27017/tractatus node scripts/publish-taonga-governance-blog-post.js # Local tractatus */ const { MongoClient } = require('mongodb'); const uri = process.env.MONGODB_URI || 'mongodb://localhost:27017/tractatus_dev'; const post = { title: 'Beyond One Framework: Taonga-Centred Governance for AI Steering Vectors', slug: 'taonga-centred-steering-governance-polycentric-ai', author: 'John Stroh', content: `
Draft status: This article summarises a companion research paper (STO-RES-0010) that draws on concepts from te ao M\u0101ori. The paper has not been peer-reviewed or validated by M\u0101ori. Until that review occurs, its proposals remain drafts awaiting correction, critique, and collaboration from M\u0101ori scholars, practitioners, and governance bodies.
Our earlier paper, Steering Vectors and Mechanical Bias (STO-RES-0009), established that sovereign small language model deployments have a structural advantage for inference-time debiasing: full access to model weights and activations enables techniques that are architecturally impossible through commercial API endpoints.
But critique of that paper \u2014 including our own v1.1 revisions \u2014 exposed a governance limitation we had not fully resolved. The paper treated steering vectors largely as an internal platform affordance: the platform operator defines bias, extracts vectors, and distributes corrections to downstream tenants. For many use cases, this hierarchy is appropriate. For iwi, hap\u016B, or other bodies exercising parallel sovereignty, it structurally subordinates their governance to the platform\u2019s \u2014 regardless of intent.
The companion paper asks: what if we replaced this hierarchy with a network?
Full paper: Taonga-Centred Steering Governance: Polycentric Authority for Sovereign Small Language Models (STO-RES-0010)
`, excerpt: 'Our steering vectors paper treated bias correction as a platform affordance. Critique revealed a deeper question: whose norms do steering vectors enforce? This companion paper proposes polycentric governance. Draft awaiting Māori peer review.', tags: ['taonga', 'polycentric-governance', 'sovereign-ai', 'steering-vectors', 'indigenous-data-sovereignty', 'tikanga', 'village-ai', 'research'], status: 'published', featured: false, publishedAt: new Date('2026-02-09T14:00:00Z'), createdAt: new Date('2026-02-09T14:00:00Z'), updatedAt: new Date('2026-02-09T14:00:00Z') }; async function main() { console.log(`Connecting to: ${uri}`); const client = new MongoClient(uri); await client.connect(); const db = client.db(); const collection = db.collection('blog_posts'); const existing = await collection.findOne({ slug: post.slug }); if (existing) { console.log(`Post with slug "${post.slug}" already exists (ID: ${existing._id}). Skipping.`); await client.close(); return; } const result = await collection.insertOne(post); console.log(`Published: "${post.title}"`); console.log(`ID: ${result.insertedId}`); console.log(`URL: https://agenticgovernance.digital/blog-post.html?slug=${post.slug}`); await client.close(); } main().catch(err => { console.error('Error:', err); process.exit(1); });