The Right to Act: A Governance Principle for Admissibility in Real-Time Systems
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| contents | <p>This paper defines a foundational governance principle for real-time, safety-critical, and AI-driven systems: the right to act is not inherent to system capability, but is contingent on the admissibility of the condition upon which action depends.</p> <p>Across modern systems, emphasis is placed on decision logic, model performance, and operational responsiveness. However, these approaches assume that the condition being acted upon is valid at the moment of execution. This assumption is rarely interrogated or independently established.</p> <p>This paper identifies admissibility as the critical boundary in system governance. It establishes that, for any action to be valid, the condition upon which it depends must be proven to be real, current, and evidentially valid at the exact moment of reliance.</p> <p>Where admissibility cannot be established, execution is not simply uncertain—it is invalid. Any action taken under such conditions has no evidential standing and cannot be considered governed or reliable.</p> <p>The paper further demonstrates that admissibility cannot be derived from the system itself. Where systems define or validate their own admissibility, they become self-referential, collapsing the distinction between evidence and assumption. Independent establishment of admissibility is therefore required.</p> <p>This principle reframes real-time governance from managing how systems make decisions to determining whether those decisions are permitted to occur at all.</p> <p>Until admissibility is independently established at the moment of execution, systems described as operating in real time remain dependent on assumption rather than evidence.</p> <p> </p> <p>This paper forms part of a structured body of work examining the governance limitations of static certification, the evidentiary gap between compliance and operational reality, and the requirement for contemporaneous proof at the moment of reliance. It establishes the execution constraint that follows from these conditions.</p> |
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| spellingShingle | The Right to Act: A Governance Principle for Admissibility in Real-Time Systems Mincher, Paul Real-time Governance Admissibility Evidence based Systems Decision Execution System Independence Ai Governance Safety-critical systems Evidence Integrity Moment of reliance Unknown Present <p>This paper defines a foundational governance principle for real-time, safety-critical, and AI-driven systems: the right to act is not inherent to system capability, but is contingent on the admissibility of the condition upon which action depends.</p> <p>Across modern systems, emphasis is placed on decision logic, model performance, and operational responsiveness. However, these approaches assume that the condition being acted upon is valid at the moment of execution. This assumption is rarely interrogated or independently established.</p> <p>This paper identifies admissibility as the critical boundary in system governance. It establishes that, for any action to be valid, the condition upon which it depends must be proven to be real, current, and evidentially valid at the exact moment of reliance.</p> <p>Where admissibility cannot be established, execution is not simply uncertain—it is invalid. Any action taken under such conditions has no evidential standing and cannot be considered governed or reliable.</p> <p>The paper further demonstrates that admissibility cannot be derived from the system itself. Where systems define or validate their own admissibility, they become self-referential, collapsing the distinction between evidence and assumption. Independent establishment of admissibility is therefore required.</p> <p>This principle reframes real-time governance from managing how systems make decisions to determining whether those decisions are permitted to occur at all.</p> <p>Until admissibility is independently established at the moment of execution, systems described as operating in real time remain dependent on assumption rather than evidence.</p> <p> </p> <p>This paper forms part of a structured body of work examining the governance limitations of static certification, the evidentiary gap between compliance and operational reality, and the requirement for contemporaneous proof at the moment of reliance. It establishes the execution constraint that follows from these conditions.</p> |
| title | The Right to Act: A Governance Principle for Admissibility in Real-Time Systems |
| topic | Real-time Governance Admissibility Evidence based Systems Decision Execution System Independence Ai Governance Safety-critical systems Evidence Integrity Moment of reliance Unknown Present |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19596570 |