As people rely more on AI for searching, planning, and decision support, an unexpected pattern begins to surface. Asking the same question does not always lead to the same understanding. Different AI agents may respond with answers that feel reasonable on their own, yet subtly misaligned with one another.
This inconsistency rarely appears as a clear error. Instead, it shows up as small differences in emphasis, assumptions, or interpretation. Over time, these differences create uncertainty. Users begin to wonder which response represents the original intent, even though the question itself never changed.
The issue lies deeper than response quality.
AI systems operate within different environments, models, and execution contexts. Each system manages identity, memory, and reference internally. Without a shared point of reference, interpretation naturally diverges as systems evolve. Alignment slowly erodes, not because systems fail, but because meaning is resolved locally rather than collectively.
This condition is commonly observed as Meaning Drift.
Meaning Drift reflects an infrastructure gap rather than a modeling problem. When AI systems lack a shared layer for identity, memory, and intent continuity, consistent understanding becomes difficult to sustain across platforms and agents.
Canonical Funnel Economy (CFE) operates as a Decentralized AI Trust Layer Infrastructure designed to address this gap. Instead of embedding interpretation logic inside individual systems, CFE introduces shared reference primitives that AI agents can resolve against over time.
This infrastructure is composed of persistent agent identity through decentralized identifiers (DID), immutable memory anchored by content identifiers (CID) on distributed storage networks such as IPFS, and a Meaning Root that allows systems to resolve original intent consistently, even when implementations differ.
By distributing trust across open networks, AI systems maintain alignment without central control. In practical environments, this supports autonomous agents, cross-platform workflows, and coordinated multi-agent operations where meaning remains stable.
As AI collaboration continues to expand, trust increasingly depends on reference continuity.