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Main Authors: Romanchuk, Oleg, Bondar, Roman
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03119
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author Romanchuk, Oleg
Bondar, Roman
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Bondar, Roman
contents Agentic AI deployments increasingly behave as persistent institutions rather than one-shot inference endpoints: they accumulate state, invoke external tools, coordinate multiple runtimes, and modify their future authority surface over time. Existing governance language typically specifies decision-layer constraints but leaves the causal mechanics of boundary crossing underdefined, particularly for transitions that do not immediately change the external world yet expand what the institution can later do. This paper introduces AI Space Physics as a constitutive semantics for open, self-expanding AI institutions. We define a minimal state model with typed boundary channels, horizon-limited reach semantics, and a membrane-witness discipline. The core law family (P-1, P-1a, P-1b, P-1c) requires witness completeness, non-bypass mediation, atomic adjudication-to-effect transitions, and replayable reconstruction of adjudication class. We explicitly separate second-order effects into structural expansion and policy broadening, and treat expansion transitions as governance-relevant even when immediate external deltas are zero. The novelty claim is precise rather than expansive: this work does not introduce mediation as a concept; it reclassifies authority-surface expansion as a first-class boundary event with constitutive witness obligations. In this semantics, expansion without immediate commit remains adjudication-relevant.
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spellingShingle AI Space Physics: Constitutive boundary semantics for open AI institutions
Romanchuk, Oleg
Bondar, Roman
Artificial Intelligence
Logic in Computer Science
Agentic AI deployments increasingly behave as persistent institutions rather than one-shot inference endpoints: they accumulate state, invoke external tools, coordinate multiple runtimes, and modify their future authority surface over time. Existing governance language typically specifies decision-layer constraints but leaves the causal mechanics of boundary crossing underdefined, particularly for transitions that do not immediately change the external world yet expand what the institution can later do. This paper introduces AI Space Physics as a constitutive semantics for open, self-expanding AI institutions. We define a minimal state model with typed boundary channels, horizon-limited reach semantics, and a membrane-witness discipline. The core law family (P-1, P-1a, P-1b, P-1c) requires witness completeness, non-bypass mediation, atomic adjudication-to-effect transitions, and replayable reconstruction of adjudication class. We explicitly separate second-order effects into structural expansion and policy broadening, and treat expansion transitions as governance-relevant even when immediate external deltas are zero. The novelty claim is precise rather than expansive: this work does not introduce mediation as a concept; it reclassifies authority-surface expansion as a first-class boundary event with constitutive witness obligations. In this semantics, expansion without immediate commit remains adjudication-relevant.
title AI Space Physics: Constitutive boundary semantics for open AI institutions
topic Artificial Intelligence
Logic in Computer Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03119