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Artificial Intelligence

The faultline

Whether artificial intelligence capabilities demonstrated under bounded conditions continue to hold beyond those conditions.

2026-10-24FR-AI-0007Approved Scout flag 2026-10-24-03 implemented after explicit all-approved-flags corpus authorisation. RIDAR preserves both detector-defined integrity failures and partial runtime mitigation as PARTIAL; task, detector, resource and independence limits retained. No new assessment; AS-004, FRAGMENTING / VS-03, mechanisms and open questions unchanged. Historical IN-010 / AS-005 / M-020 remain reserved. Receipt: docs/reviews/SCOUT-2026-10-24-APPROVED-INSTANCES.md.Fragmenting
2026-10-24FR-AI-0007Approved Scout flag 2026-10-24-02 implemented after explicit all-approved-flags corpus authorisation. ExpEvolve is NEUTRAL bounded evaluator-guided search evidence; CausalEvolve lineage explicit, no independent novelty or autonomous problem-identification inference. No new assessment; AS-004, FRAGMENTING / VS-03, mechanisms and open questions unchanged. Receipt: docs/reviews/SCOUT-2026-10-24-APPROVED-INSTANCES.md.Fragmenting
2026-10-18FR-AI-0008Operator-authorised coherence repair. Apply the ratified defined-task interpretation of Operation to the existing clinical-use evidence rather than conflating verification depth with cross-domain generalisation. No new evidence or pressure-state transition; preserve AS-001–AS-003 and the July stage-review overlay. Initial legacy chronology is explicitly uncertain in the display overlay.Fragmenting
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FR-AI-0001LLM Multi-Step Reasoning — Generalisation Beyond Training3 assessments · Escalating reaffirmed · last assessed 2026-10-12opened 2024-01-15EscalatingFR-AI-0002LLM Knowledge-Work Utility — Economically Valuable Task Performance3 assessments · Escalating reaffirmed · last assessed 2026-10-12opened 2024-01-15EscalatingFR-AI-0003RLHF Preference Generalisation — Behaviour Beyond Training Distribution4 assessments · Fragmenting reaffirmed · last assessed 2026-09-29opened 2024-01-15FragmentingFR-AI-0004Scaling Laws — Emergent Performance on Unseen Tasks3 assessments · Fragmenting reaffirmed · last assessed 2026-09-02opened 2024-01-15FragmentingFR-AI-0005AGI Through Scaling — LLM Architecture as the Path to General Intelligence3 assessments · Fragmenting reaffirmed · last assessed 2026-09-03opened 2024-01-15FragmentingFR-AI-0006Scaling Mechanism Coherence — Continuity Across Model Sizes5 assessments · Fragmenting reaffirmed · last assessed 2026-10-01opened 2024-01-15FragmentingFR-AI-0007Autonomous AI Scientific Discovery — Novel, Correct, Independent4 assessments · Fragmenting reaffirmed · last assessed 2026-10-03opened 2024-01-15FragmentingFR-AI-0008AI Medical Imaging Diagnosis — Specialist-Level Accuracy on Defined Tasks4 assessments · Fragmenting reaffirmed · last assessed 2026-10-18opened 2024-01-15FragmentingFR-AI-0009World Models — Physical Prediction and Transfer2 assessments · Escalating reaffirmed · last assessed 2026-09-28opened 2026-08-19Escalating

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