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ARXIV:2602.23239 · AI SYSTEMS AND NORMS · SUBMITTED 02 APR · 02:30 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2602.23239AI SYSTEMS AND NORMSSUBMITTED 02 APR · 02:30 UTCFRESHNESS STALEarXiv
Explores why Large Language Models with optimization-based architectures cannot comply with normative constraints, offering a substrate-neutral architectural specification for genuine agency.
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Pain Explores why Large Language Models with optimization-based architectures cannot comply with normative constraints, offering a substrate-neutral architectural specification for genuine agency.
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Explores why Large Language Models with optimization-based architectures cannot comply with normative constraints, offering a substrate-neutral architectural specification for genuine agency. This paper demonstrates that assumption is formally invalid for optimization-based systems, specifically Large…
AI systems are increasingly deployed in high-stakes contexts -- medical diagnosis, legal research, financial analysis -- under the assumption they can be governed by norms. This paper demonstrates that assumption is formally invalid for…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 3.0/10 on the public viability pass. This paper demonstrates that assumption is formally invalid for optimization-based systems, specifically Large Language Models trained via Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF).
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Explores why Large Language Models with optimization-based architectures cannot comply with normative constraints, offering a substrate-neutral architectural specification for genuine agency.
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10.48550/arXiv.2602.23239Explores why Large Language Models with optimization-based architectures cannot comply with normative constraints, offering a substrate-neutral architectural specification for genuine agency.
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AI systems are increasingly deployed in high-stakes contexts -- medical diagnosis, legal research, financial analysis -- under the assumption they can be governed by norms. This paper demonstrates that assumption is formally invalid for optimization-based systems, specifically Large Language Models trained via Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). We establish that genuine agency requires two necessary and jointly sufficient architectural conditions: the capacity to maintain certain boundaries as non-negotiable constraints rather than tradeable weights (Incommensurability), and a non-inferential mechanism capable of suspending processing when those boundaries are threatened (Apophatic Responsiveness). These conditions apply across all normative domains. RLHF-based systems are constitutively incompatible with both conditions. The operations that make optimization powerful -- unifying all values on a scalar metric and always selecting the highest-scoring output -- are precisely the operations that preclude normative governance. This incompatibility is not a correctable training bug awaiting a technical fix; it is a formal constraint inherent to what optimization is. Consequently, documented failure modes - sycophancy, hallucination, and unfaithful reasoning - are not accidents but structural manifestations. Misaligned deployment triggers a second-order risk we term the Convergence Crisis: when humans are forced to verify AI outputs under metric pressure, they degrade from genuine agents into criteria-checking optimizers, eliminating the only component in the system capable of normative accountability. Beyond the incompatibility proof, the paper's primary positive contribution is a substrate-neutral architectural specification defining what any system -- biological, artificial, or institutional -- must satisfy to qualify as an agent rather than a sophisticated instrument.
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Explores why Large Language Models with optimization-based architectures cannot comply with normative constraints, offering a substrate-neutral architectural specification for genuine agency. This paper demonstrates that assumption is formally invalid for optimization-based syst...
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AI systems are increasingly deployed in high-stakes contexts -- medical diagnosis, legal research, financial analysis -- under the assumption they can be governed by norms. This paper demonstrates that assumption is formally invalid for optimization-based systems, specifically L...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 3.0/10 on the public viability pass. This paper demonstrates that assumption is formally invalid for optimization-based systems, specifically Large Language Models trained via Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF).
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Explores why Large Language Models with optimization-based architectures cannot comply with normative constraints, offering a substrate-neutral architectural specification for genuine agency. This paper demonstrates that assumption is formally invalid for optimization-based systems, specifically Large Language Models trained via Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF).
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AI systems are increasingly deployed in high-stakes contexts -- medical diagnosis, legal research, financial analysis -- under the assumption they can be governed by norms. This paper demonstrates that assumption is formally invalid for optimization-based systems, specifically Large Language Models trained via Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF).
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