corrigible mediation

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Editorial synthesis · provisional

Definition

Corrigible mediation is AI interposition kept contestable, revisable and stoppable before its outputs harden into authority. The author locates correction in the regime’s couplings with persons and institutions, rather than in obedience to whichever official receives an answer. A maintained exit belongs to those materially affected and requires more than accurate output or disclosure alone.

Explanation

The critical transition is where an output becomes actionable. Governance must address the arrangement that grants a projection force, because an evaluated model can enter changing workflows, dependencies and institutional shortcuts. A release-time snapshot therefore cannot settle whether mediation remains correctable through its subsequent use.

Horizon is explicitly a precursor rather than an AI example: institutional reliance made a record difficult to challenge. The source distinguishes Pasquale’s disclosure remedy from its maintained exit. The educational example separately asks whether a generated answer substitutes completion for formation, locating correction in pedagogical practice.

Corrigibility concerns an available revision after a wrong is shown. It does not by itself ensure that the wrong enters concern or that an open exit will be chosen. Moral attunement supplies that further question, so the proposal keeps answerable mediation distinct from both blind obedience and an allegedly complete automated morality.

Scope and attribution

Retain the regime-level subentry and distinguish historical precursor, application and definition.

AB — The Actual Book

Mediation must preserve affected persons’ practical correction rather than transfer authority silently.

Occurrence locators: 167, 168; Glossary: 224, 225; Appendix: 280, 281.

PB — The Possible Book

An exit must work in practice, not merely on paper.

Occurrence locators: 64, 105, 179.

RB3 — The Real Book, Volume III: Murmurations

Correction targets actionable couplings and remains distinct from attunement.

Occurrence locators: 173, 174, 175, 184, 192, 295, 296.