About the Author

Lumenoid was created by Doby Baxter as a personal and technical exploration of ethical AI design, grounded in psychology, systems thinking, and human-centered engineering.

The project is written from the perspective that artificial intelligence is not an autonomous force, but a human-engineered system whose risks emerge from missing boundaries, weak validation, and loss of traceability as complexity scales.

Lumenoid is not presented as a product or a promise. It is a framework for making responsibility, uncertainty, and agency preservation structural rather than assumed. Its goal is to keep human accountability visible and reversible, especially in environments where AI outputs might otherwise appear authoritative or complete. The framework is intentionally skeletal and non-personal: designed to support many forms of intelligence without prescribing identity, values, or outcomes. It is meant to be adaptable across cultures, legal systems, and institutions while keeping its ethical invariants explicit and inspectable.

Doby maintains the reference versions and core principles of Lumenoid. Organizations and individuals may adapt the framework for their own contexts; responsibility for deployment, governance, and compliance remains with those who implement and operate it.

Lumenoid is an ongoing exploration. Its structures and tests are expected to deepen over time, not to increase authority, but to strengthen the conditions under which reasoning remains meaningful, uncertainty remains visible, and human autonomy remains intact.