The Meaning Caste: How a frontier AI company engineered a meaning caste system, then licensed it to the state in the pol

'The Meaning Caste' reads the June 2, 2026 Executive Order as the legal establishment of a meaning caste system in which access to frontier AI reasoning is stratified by institutional trust tier. The cybersecurity vocabulary of the order functions as the grammar through which this stratification happens without being named as such. The paper identifies the architecture as a commercial prototype (built by the AI industry) that was then licensed to the state, analyzing the specific mechanisms by which tiered access to cognition is produced and maintained.