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Architectural and normative notes from AxiomCausal. No superlatives, no outcome promises, explicit limits. Written in the same register as the EBC preprint.

· 10 min read · ebc-framework · validation-status · regulated-ai

The Validation Status Problem: Conceptual, Partially Validated, Empirically Validated Are Not the Same Thing

Behavioral AI products routinely conflate theoretical inspiration with empirical validation. We argue that a three-level validation status column, attached to every behavioral module, is the minimum discipline a regulated decisioning system owes its reviewers.

· 11 min read · regulated-ai · ebc-framework · explainability

Implicit vs Explicit Behavioral Theory: Why Regulated AI Cannot Afford Black-Box Assumptions

Every machine-learning system for regulated decisioning encodes behavioral assumptions about the humans it acts on. In most stacks those assumptions are invisible. We argue that in high-stakes regulated contexts, invisibility is no longer an acceptable design choice.