Funder of the CCTI project under its Scaling Trust
programme. First appearance in this wiki:
sources/proposals/2026-06-17-aria-ccti-proposal-draft-2.md.
⟨Background: ARIA is the UK’s high-risk/high-reward research funding agency, established by the Advanced Research and Invention Agency Act 2022 and organised around programme directors who each define an opportunity space and fund a cohort of teams (“creators”) within it. No primary ARIA source has been ingested yet — this paragraph is general knowledge and should be replaced by a downloaded ARIA source before being relied on.⟩
What the CCTI source establishes
- ARIA runs a programme called Scaling Trust, with a cohort of creators funded in parallel; CCTI is one of them and is expected to interoperate with the others.
- ARIA operates an Arena — a venue for benchmarks and challenges. CCTI commits to contributing open-source benchmarks for trust-primitive verification and proposed challenge designs to it.
- The programme’s animating question, as CCTI states it: when do AI-specific primitives provably expand achievable coordination outcomes?
- Adoption decisions across the cohort rest with “creators as well as with ARIA and Arena leadership” — i.e. ARIA steers convergence, individual projects only offer.
- Funding instrument: an agreement with numbered clauses and Schedules (clause 19 governs sub-contractors, clause 22.7 principal investigators and key researchers), with milestone-linked costs.
Open questions
- Who is the Scaling Trust programme director, what is the programme’s
budget and duration, and who else is in the cohort? The last of these is
operationally important: CCTI’s WP-F integration map (due M1, 30/9/2026)
is precisely a map of that cohort. ⚠ ⟨That date has passed — 30.09.2026,
now 33 days ago — and nothing in
sources/records whether the gate was met. See CCTI and open task 8. Caveat propagated here by the 2026-11-02 lint; this cross-reference had kept the future tense after the canonical pages dropped it.⟩ - What is the Arena, concretely — a standing evaluation infrastructure, a competition series, or both?
- Does ARIA’s model create a further UK anchoring pull on SINE beyond this project?
Related
- CCTI — the funded project
- Martin Kleppmann — Co-PI