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Section One of the eCortex White Paper (January 2026) — a research-led deep dive into who controls AI, where risk sits, and why it matters for organisations using AI today.
XHAL’s eCortex Research Hub is the public home of an open, continuously evolving white paper examining how modern AI systems are built, who controls them, and how their impacts are experienced by people, organisations, and communities.
It brings together technical reality, market structure, and human consequences to help educators, healthcare providers, policymakers, and enterprises understand not just what AI can do — but how it is governed, where risk sits, and who ultimately holds responsibility.
This research is published in stages as the work develops, with each section reflecting the best publicly available understanding of the AI ecosystem at the time of release.
This hub tracks the development of the eCortex White Paper. Each section is published when it is ready and remains available as part of a transparent, living research programme.
This is a long-term, open research programme examining the structure, governance, and human impact of artificial intelligence. It includes the full working document, background material, and a roadmap of future sections.
Section One establishes the baseline for all future research. It explains who owns foundational AI models, who controls cloud infrastructure, and how power and risk are distributed across the modern AI ecosystem.
It is the starting point for understanding why AI feels decentralised — but behaves as a tightly coupled system.
The eCortex White Paper is not theoretical. It informs the design of real AI systems used in education, healthcare, and public services. The platforms below are practical applications of the principles explored in our research — combining ethical design, human oversight, and AI-powered insight.
XHAL.UK is an ethical AI consultancy and product studio, founded on the belief that technology should serve people — not the other way around.We create Ethical AI Learning Training Tools for schools, healthcare, and SMEs. Our platforms help organisations boost productivity while protecting human skills.Our products — Rapid LMS, Teddy AI™, and EchoMinds™ — are designed with neurodiversity, equality, and wellbeing at their core. At XHAL.UK, we don’t just build AI. We build AI that empowers.
