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Decision Sovereignty

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Decision Sovereignty
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June 17, 2026

Research question

Which decisions must remain human, and how is that boundary held under pressure?

Working thesis

Some commitments are irreversible or high-consequence enough that authority over them must stay with a person, structurally rather than by convention. Holding that boundary is an architectural obligation — it has to survive convenience, volume, and time.

A thesis is the lab’s current position, not a result. What supports it is listed below; what remains unresolved is stated at the end of this page.

Publications

1 attributed

Apparatus

1 system

Systems attached to this program are what the lab builds to investigate the question. Maturity, evidence level, and current activity are recorded separately on each system — a system attached here is not thereby claimed to be production-ready.

TripSitter

Supervisory Runtime

A supervisory runtime for active monitoring of autonomous AI sessions: uncertainty detection, drift detection, budget and policy monitoring, and human escalation with bounded intervention.

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Open questions

Published as open. These are the parts of the program the lab does not consider settled.

  • 01

    How is a decision classified as sovereign without freezing the whole system?

  • 02

    What prevents sovereignty from eroding quietly as delegation becomes routine?

  • 03

    How is authority verified at the moment it matters rather than assumed?

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