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Formal impossibility results establishing non-derivable authority.

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The evidentiary baseline for plaintiff-side AI litigation. Establishes that the failure mode in automated decision systems is structural, not emergent, and predates deployment.

Empirical demolition of the Spontaneous Legibility Assumption underpinning every category of AI safety product on the market. Uses ER1–ER4 on toy models.

What Anthropic's J-Space discovery means for governance. Independent convergence between the formal corpus and the manufacturer's own interpretability finding confirms the hidden decision channel is real, and detection does not constitute authority.

Interior governance is provably unverifiable. WP04 proves that governance is forced to the boundary where the system acts on a person, and that the boundary is fixed by the person, not the machine. The result holds for every substrate, from organoids and brain-computer interfaces to quantum processors, because the constraint was never about the machine. It was always about the person at the other end.

© 2026 Stacy Gildenston & Pyrate Ruby Passell. All rights reserved. Cited formal records are CC BY 4.0.

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