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Method and corrections Interactive field model
Inspect the system around the AI system. The model is organized by the clauses of the definition: societies, the four objects, the benefits and harmful patterns governance aims at, and the conditions it races against. Apply a cross-cutting test, narrow by lifecycle stage or level, and inspect how definitions, claims, relationships and sources travel together.
Apply a cross-cutting test Whole model Power Legitimacy Distribution Adaptability
Narrow by lifecycle stage or level Lifecycle stage Any stage Research Data collection Model development Evaluation Procurement Deployment Monitoring Incident response Retirement Level Any level Community and organisational use Corporate Sectoral National Regional International Loading interactive controls. Concept links remain available. Field model · whole model
Groups follow the clauses of the definition; they are not a sequence or causal chain. Actual relationships appear in the inspector.
Jump to selected entity Societies …how societies should shape…
actor AI developer or provider actor Deploying organization actor Affected people actor Civil society and independent researchers Incentives …the incentives…
incentive Deployment pressure incentive Competitive race dynamics incentive Liability exposure incentive Procurement leverage
Institutions …institutions…
institution Regulator or public authority institution Internal safety and governance team institution Standards body institution International institution
Infrastructures …infrastructures…
infrastructure Evaluation capacity infrastructure Compute infrastructure Data, language resources, and data labor infrastructure Energy, water, and minerals infrastructure Data work and content moderation Safeguards …and safeguards around AI…
safeguard Risk management process safeguard Impact assessment safeguard Traceability safeguard Audit record safeguard Meaningful human oversight safeguard Supervision and regulatory review safeguard Pre-deployment evaluation and red teaming safeguard Incident reporting and post-deployment monitoring safeguard Complaint and appeal routes safeguard Review and sunset provisions safeguard Compute controls Benefits and harmful patterns …so that its benefits are broadly shared and harmful patterns are addressed…
principle Accountability principle Safety principle Broadly shared benefit pattern Contestable decision pattern Concentration of power pattern Systematically unreliable provenance pattern Over-reliance and deskilling pattern Sycophancy and engagement-driven agreement pattern Homogenisation and loss of authorship Choices and conditions …while they are still choices rather than conditions.
condition Lock-in condition Governance lock-in condition Reversibility window
Safeguard · Safeguards emerging
Review and sunset provisions A mechanism's specification of how and when it will be reviewed, what evidence will be gathered about whether it works, and how it can be revised or retired.
How will we know if this rule is wrong, and who can change it?
Tests Adaptability Legitimacy
Lifecycle Monitoring Retirement
Levels National Regional International Recorded relationships Read each statement from its first entity to its second. Status describes our mapping, not certainty of cause.
Review and sunset provisions — guards against → Governance lock-in
Mapping: asserted
A mechanism that specifies its own review, evidence and revision path is the anticipatory-governance response to rules written before the technology is understood.
Inspect evidence · source links · passage review pending Passage summaries are paraphrases, not quotations. Open the source to read the full passage.
Claims and evidence · 2 source-assertion Confidence: high Contestability: low
Early in a technology's development change is easy but its consequences are poorly understood; once the consequences are clear, change has become costly and slow.
Our reading: Source-level citation pending passage review against the 1980 text. The dilemma is widely restated; this record cites the original.
Inspect evidence · source links · passage review pending Passage summaries are paraphrases, not quotations. Open the source to read the full passage.
source-assertion Confidence: high Contestability: medium
Anticipatory governance is a broad societal capacity to act on emerging technologies while their management is still possible, through foresight, engagement, and integration.
Our reading: Source-level citation pending passage review. Guston's definition builds on earlier work with Sarewitz and on nanotechnology governance programs.
Inspect evidence · source links · passage review pending Passage summaries are paraphrases, not quotations. Open the source to read the full passage.