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Why I Am Doing This: Origin Story of Project-AI (Constitutional AI Governance) (zenodo.org)
1 point by IAmSoThirsty 81 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


The structural vs. aspirational governance distinction in here is the clearest framing I've seen of a problem I've been watching from a different angle: what happens when AI output quality is ungoverned at the team level in mid-market organizations?

Your point about systems that "tend to behave correctly" vs. systems that "cannot behave incorrectly without violating their own structure" maps onto something observable in practice: the same prompt run by five different people in the same organisation produces five different quality outputs. Not because the model failed, but because there's no structural standard enforcing what good output looks like for that context.

The governance gap you're describing at the architectural level exists at the operational level too. Most organisations treat AI adoption as an access problem and give people the tool, let them figure it out. Nobody is enforcing output quality as a structural constraint. It's aspirational at best.

Interested in how Project-AI thinks about the human-system interaction layer? Specifically whether governance mechanisms account for the prompt as a variable rather than treating it as fixed input.




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