
Jennings and the Machine's Ceiling
A very new working paper proposes a boundary for intelligence. AlphaZero reveals what its criteria explain — and what they do not yet establish.
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A very new working paper proposes a boundary for intelligence. AlphaZero reveals what its criteria explain — and what they do not yet establish.

The off-switch game creates an incentive for correction — and its extensions show why uncertainty is not enough.

Stafford Beer supplies the organizational backbone. Stuart Russell tests corrigibility; Bernard Jennings offers a young and explicitly provisional challenge to equating throughput with intelligence.

Once an AI output is tied to thresholds, defaults, and authority, it changes the decision system.

The Horizon case shows why a technically consistent record cannot warrant its own truth. Trust requires a route from evidence to challenge and correction.

An architectural reading of the Epic Sepsis Model validation distinguishes selection power, proposal power, trigger authority, and reversibility.