Problem: Systems operate after mandate assumptions have expired
Compliance dashboards stay green while mandate alignment silently erodes.
DASR is a 30-day structured audit protocol that measures the divergence between
an AI system's authorized mandate and its current operational state — before the
gap becomes a governance incident. Delivers Drift Magnitude, Drift Velocity,
and Cumulative Exposure as audit-grade metrics.
Problem: No formal structure for whether a decision is still allowed to execute
Existing frameworks verify that decisions were made correctly. DCF addresses a different
question: is this decision still legitimately authorized to execute right now?
Defines three closure conditions — Authority Closure, Assumption Closure, Evidence Closure —
that must hold continuously, not just at approval time. Includes Authority Rebinding
and Failure Transition Control.
Problem: No standard for evaluating AI capability and compliance under drift
AI governance assessments lack a unified framework for measuring both capability and
compliance as system conditions change. GCCL provides a structured evaluation framework
with drift detection, autonomy levels, and witnessable certification. Submitted to the
EU AI Office Expert Forum as a candidate governance standard (Contribution ID: 510c3274).
Problem: AI system instability cannot be detected from outside the system
Most reliability assessments require access to model internals. Output-Only Diagnostics
provides a black-box framework for detecting multi-turn instability and structural
unreliability in language models from observable outputs alone — applicable in production
environments where internal state is not accessible.
Problem: Semantic change in AI systems has no formal governance object
AI systems can remain statistically stable while their internal meaning structures
shift in ways that affect decision identity. This paper establishes SSE as the
scientific field that makes internal semantic states, drift trajectories, and
meaning evolution formally observable. The canonical field definition that underlies
all Decision Integrity analysis.
Problem: Certification and correctness do not guarantee decision identity
A system can pass all certification checks and maintain behavioral correctness while
its decision identity has already drifted. This paper provides the formal separation
showing why certification alone is insufficient for governance — and why decision
identity requires its own invariants and witnessability conditions.
Problem: Meaning-state change in adaptive systems is not operationally tracked
Adaptive systems undergo internal meaning-state changes that are invisible to standard
monitoring. This paper provides the dynamical framework for analyzing how meaning states
evolve, when they shift regimes, and how long internal structure remains interpretable —
the operational foundation for drift detection in Decision Integrity applications.
Category anchor: Semantic Stability Engineering as a distinct discipline
Foundational claim and timestamped category anchor for Semantic Stability Engineering.
Establishes SSE as independent from statistical concept drift, alignment research,
and interpretability tooling — and defines the conditions under which meaning-state
analysis becomes necessary for governance.
Implementation: Reference architecture for governance under drift
Research artifact and implementation package for reflexive audit architecture and
semantic drift stabilization. Demonstrates that Decision Integrity principles are
operationally implementable — not only theoretically specified.