Briefs | 3 Primitives

What This Is

These briefs are a cold-start orientation layer for decision-permitting systems: systems capable of acting on people, accounts, eligibility, access, safety, reputation, or rights.

They are designed to be read by mixed teams (executive + governance + engineering) and used as a shared vocabulary before any implementation, procurement, model deployment, or audit program.

Format: Digital document (PDF)

Delivery: Delivered digitally

The Three Briefs

1) Executive Compression

The Upstream Safety System (USS) Architectural Intervention

Establishes the Three Governance Primitives and defines Ghost Authority as an architectural failure mode. This brief is the cold-start orientation layer.

Defines Authority, Permission, and Decision as distinct primitives
Explains Ghost Authority as structural illegitimacy
Establishes why AI systems cannot govern without declared human authority (δ)
Provides a shared vocabulary for executives and engineers

2) The Law of Declared Authority

Necessary Closure for Legitimacy in Decision-Permitting Systems

Formally states the closure condition for governance legitimacy: no action is legitimate unless a complete Declared Authority δ = {p, a, c} has been explicitly constituted by a human actor prior to execution.

Derives the Law from the Three Primitives
Defines structural openness
Demonstrates how Ghost Authority arises
Establishes decision-completeness at the governance layer

This brief closes the governance layer.

3) The Twisted Pair Legitimacy Theorem

Coupled Closure of Governance and Personhood Primitives

Shows that governance closure alone is insufficient for total legitimacy. Introduces the ADCI value layer:

Agency
Dignity
Continuity
Interpretive Authority

Establishes the total legitimacy function:
L = δ × (A ∧ D ∧ C ∧ I)
Both layers must equal 1. A single zero collapses legitimacy.

This brief closes the dual-layer architecture.

What This Set Accomplishes

Together, the three briefs establish:

Structural governance closure
Human-declared authority as a necessary condition
Dual-layer legitimacy (governance + personhood)
A decision-complete orientation for AI-mediated systems

This is a pre-implementation alignment instrument.
It is not post-hoc audit theatre.

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For organisational internal circulation, governance review, executive alignment preparation, and internal policy analysis.

Includes:

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Board-level circulation

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Public redistribution
Resale or sublicensing
Advisory or implementation services

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What This Is — and Is Not

This is:

A structural governance invariant
A decision-completeness orientation instrument
A pre-deployment AI governance layer
A formal architectural intervention

This is not:

Legal advice
Ethics consulting
Moderation or content filtering
A delegation of responsibility
An API product (API access is handled separately.)

Engagement Boundary

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Canonical Anchors

These briefs are anchored to the formal Zenodo records and the canonical logic sequence. In the event of interpretive conflict, the Zenodo records take precedence.