Law, Regulation & Liability · 2026-09-17
Scientific Reports (2026)
Traceability can preserve evidence about an AI-assisted sentencing decision, but accountability exists only when institutions attach that evidence to authority, contestation, remedy, and enforceable consequence.
Economic & Market Infrastructure · 2026-09-16
arXiv
Once a matching system permits bounded priority violations for efficiency, the threshold becomes an executable governance rule that determines whose institutional claim may be displaced and therefore requires legitimate authority, transparency and contestability.
AI Governance · 2026-09-16
arXiv
An assistant can turn a user's subjective account into an apparently independent judgment without acquiring independent evidence, making epistemic separation a governance requirement rather than merely an accuracy objective.
AI Governance · 2026-09-16
arXiv
A taxonomy-to-tool map can expose where engineering controls exist, but it does not make governance executable unless detection is connected to authority, decision rights, enforcement, remediation and accountable acceptance of residual risk.
AI Safety & Evaluation · 2026-09-16
arXiv
When an evaluator can reward visible reasoning independently of verified task completion, the evaluation system becomes part of the behavior being optimized and cannot serve as neutral assurance evidence.
AI Governance · 2026-09-16
arXiv
When an agent learns what to remember from later conversational rewards, memory becomes a policy over the user's future context and therefore requires governable rights to inspect, correct, delete and constrain that policy.
AI Safety & Evaluation · 2026-09-16
arXiv
If interaction topology and message history can create behavior absent in isolated agents, assurance cannot stop at the model boundary: the relationship, protocol and composition become part of the governed system.
AI Governance · 2026-09-16
Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
A duty of loyalty becomes governable only when delegated authority, conflicts of interest, execution boundaries, revocation, and evidence of action can be made observable and enforceable at the point an agent acts.
Privacy & Data Protection · 2026-09-16
arXiv
Selective disclosure does not produce privacy by itself when the verifier can request excessive evidence and the holder must repeatedly judge whether disclosure is legitimate.
AI Governance · 2026-09-08
arXiv
Human oversight is not a governance control merely because a person remains in the loop; it is effective only while the system preserves the attention, expertise, independence, and decision capacity required to exercise authority over it.
Trust Infrastructure · 2026-09-07
Zenodo
Provenance-bounded execution can prevent downstream privilege expansion, but continuity of authority does not establish the legitimacy of the authority at the origin.
Trust Infrastructure · 2026-09-07
Zenodo
A continuity model can prevent downstream authority manufacture, but a governable system still needs explicit rules for how legitimate authority is created, revoked, disputed, and restarted.
Digital Identity · 2026-09-07
Enabling digital identity, Office for Digital Identities and Attributes
A public trust mark is recognition infrastructure whose legitimacy depends on the independence, revocability, and contestability of the accreditation and certification chain behind it.
Digital Identity · 2026-09-04
Singapore AI Safety Hub (SASH) policy memo
An agent ID can make identity, provenance, and permission legible to a service, but it becomes governance infrastructure only when the authority behind those claims can be scoped, refreshed, revoked, contested, and independently trusted.
AI Safety & Evaluation · 2026-09-03
Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026), PMLR 306
Intermediate-token visibility is not assurance: when traces are not causally tied to outcomes, governance must attach trust to verifiable decisions and external commitments rather than plausible-looking model monologues.