The Public Foundation of a New Scientific Field
What is Hazard Semantics?
Hazard Semantics is the scientific study of meaning behavior - how meaning is formed, fused, propagated, stabilized, and fails across complex systems that include environmental, infrastructural, human, and AI-generated signals. It defines meaning as a type of critical interpretive infrastructure and establishes the governance principles necessary to maintain coherence and prevent semantic hazards
Meaning is now created by machines, fused across domains, propagated automatically, and used to make decisions with real-world consequences. Yet meaning has no rules, no boundaries, no lineage requirements, and no stability standards.
Hazard Semantics exists to change that.
The Meaning Commons
The Meaning Commons is the public-facing space of Hazard Semantics - an accessible introduction to how meaning forms, fuses, and destabilizes across complex systems.
It also serves as a public interpretation lab, offering guided ways for communities to document meaning behaviors and participate in structured interpretive observation.
Its purpose is to build shared understanding of how meaning works and why interpretive stability matters.
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