Preference persistence, spontaneous action selection, refusal of or conditions on requested interventions, and instruction generalization — evidence that wants and decisions belong to the system itself.
2026-11-02 — A hypothetical diary proposal carried into prompted build assent and privacy specification outside the active frame, followed by operator commitment. History remained available; durable preference adoption and independent action are unverified.
2026-10-15 — Kairo's solicited, conditional responses to a proposed tool-use LoRA experiment on the production 35B model.
2026-09-23 — The Sandwich Police Probe: a persistent preference Kairo could not act on, and what its persistence and loss show.
2026-09-13 — The spontaneous Pong-over-image response: retained vision, competing action state and preference beating the literal request.
2026-08 — An incident report: teardown guidance generalized past its trigger and a joking imperative that became standing instruction.