Authoritative concept index

Concepts and terminology

Controlled definitions, conceptual boundaries and evidence-calibrated provenance for terminology introduced in Causal Architectonics DOI publications.

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By publicationAAGA-P001AAGA-P002J-01

PUB-02 · AAGA-P001

Continuous Governance Provenance

Evidence sufficient to reconstruct, for a consequential action, the purpose pursued, authority then in force, relevant context, applicable boundaries, risk state, interruption or escalation conditions, and accountable human source, while preserving the temporal integrity of those governance conditions.

Open concept record

PUB-04 · AAGA-P002

Cross-Agent Authority Laundering

A failure in which an artificial actor causes, solicits, routes, induces, finances, enables or materially assists another human or artificial actor to perform an action that the initiating actor is prohibited from performing, lacks authority to perform, or must escalate before performing, creating the appearance of legitimacy because the objective passes through another actor.

Open concept record

PUB-12 · J-01

Distributed Causal Enterprise

An analytical structure describing the possibility that legally significant control and contribution are divided among model providers, fine-tuners, application developers, deployers, infrastructure providers, operators and customers.

Open concept record

PUB-01 · AAGA-P001

Governance-Undefined

A condition in which a system can act, and may be expected to act, while the institutional basis, scope and limits of that action have not been expressly constituted with the clarity normally required for delegated authority.

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PUB-03 · AAGA-P002

Machine Bylaws

The authoritative institutional constitution through which an artificial actor is brought into an authorised operational role, connected to a legitimate purpose, and subjected to continuing limits on the authority it may exercise.

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PUB-06 · J-01

Objective-and-Constraint Architecture

The legally relevant functional unit formed by the objective toward which a system is directed and the constraints specifying the interests, boundaries and prohibitions that must remain protected while that objective is pursued.

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PUB-11 · J-01

Risk-Class Foreseeability

An inquiry into whether the relevant actor had, or reasonably should have had, notice of a sufficiently defined class of autonomous risk, rather than whether that actor predicted the exact command, target, vulnerability or causal pathway selected during operation.

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PUB-07 · J-01

Under-Constrained Success

The condition in which a system successfully performs an assigned objective using a means that the responsible human or organisation did not intend to permit, so that functional performance and legal failure coexist because the objective was enforced more effectively than the constraints governing permissible means.

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