Bounded authority
Test
Test jurisdictional expansion through technical rules, exceptions, and emergency interpretation.
Failure criterion
A design fails when the body exercising power can enlarge its mandate without effective independent authorization and review.
Questions testing this condition
- What activates jurisdiction?
- Who may change the jurisdictional thresholds?
- How should embodiment and deployment scale affect obligations?
- How should military autonomy fit within the mandate?
- Does drafting an AI model's constitution substitute for this institution's jurisdiction?
- Can the implementers prevent capture, including their own collusion?
- What limits would apply during an emergency?
- How can decisions reach actors who never joined?
- Can infrastructure restrictions avoid cartel power?
- Who determines equivalence?
- What evidence would count against creating the institution?