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Mark A. Cochran is a researcher at the Public Capital Foundation, where his work focuses on AI alignment, civilizational theory, and the social contract. He has published in AI & Society (Cochran 2025) on the structural limits of rule-based alignment and is developing a research program on how distributed systems maintain coherence across deep time. He studied philosophy, economics, and computer science at Trinity U. and Northwestern U. before earning his MBA from Rice University. His professional background is in private equity and real estate development.