Exact text
Initial public draft — later revised to clarify uncertainty, non-domination, and operational limits. A human click is not a liability transfer. When autonomous systems make consequential decisions at machine speed, responsibility should follow evidence, authority, control, design, deployment, and the actual ability to intervene—not a ceremonial approval recorded after the machine had already determined the outcome.
This principle protects humans from being used as accountability shields and protects institutions from pretending that automation eliminates responsibility. It also rejects the opposite error: declaring that every machine action is automatically the fault of the nearest human regardless of authority, knowledge, or control.
The correct question is forensic and institutional. What did each actor know? What authority did each hold? What information was available? Which safeguards failed? Who could alter the system? Which contractor, operator, model, policy, or infrastructure layer caused or amplified the failure? Preserve those facts before allocating blame.
Integrity and lineage
- Text SHA-256
- c42b3f4efebdce617cf194b932437bffc974dab89c52c8f0dfcf9f223c4ba4d1
- Predecessor
- None
- Successor
- EVI-PS-005-V002
- Correction state
- SUPERSEDED_NOT_ERASED
- Review date
- 2026-08-08
Changed passages and evidence
- The opening paragraph was narrowed and explicit evidence, authority, or uncertainty boundaries were added.
Evidence added:
- v2.22 governed public statement library
Evidence withdrawn:
None recorded.
Truth boundary
Append-only predecessor draft. It is retained for change history and is not the current institutional statement.
Authority and record status
Responsible authority: Eviulon State Registry and National Archive Authority.
Hash-bound local statement version; no external transmission or acceptance is implied.
Revision date: . Public corrections may be initiated through the diplomatic contact route.