Concepts
Artificial Fallibility is the umbrella concept of the programme. The remaining concepts are grouped by the paper that introduces them. Each paper heading links to the corresponding entry on the Papers page.
Core concept
From Architectures of Error →
From Code Structure Evolution →
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Code Structure Evolution
This paper develops the concept of Code Structure Evolution (CSE) to analyze this phenomenon.
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Decision-bearing Branches
A decision-bearing branch is a point in the agent session at which one course of action was selected from a set of plausible alternatives, where the choice has structural, behavioural, or interpretive consequences for a future maintainer.
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Epistemic Drift
What I call epistemic drift: the degradation of justificatory continuity across structural change, whether or not this degradation is immediately reflected in invariant violation, traceability loss, structural incoherence, or functional failure.
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Epistemic Point of No Return (k*)
I call k* the epistemic point of no return.
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Justificatory Reconstruction Cost (R)
Let R(Kt) denote the justificatory reconstruction cost: the cognitive and temporal effort required for a human collective H to reconstruct, from the available code and ancillary artifacts, a justificatory state satisfying J(H, Kt) ≥ τ.