10.2 - AI Governance and the Architecture of Practice, Part 2: The Specification
Two practitioners, identical compliant files, opposite cognitive architectures, and the four design requirements that answer the failure mode: cultivate, require, preserve, surface.
Part two of the audio edition of AI Governance and the Architecture of Practice makes the failure mode concrete. Two loan officers approve the same mortgage; two reviewers submit the same manuscript review; in each pair, one has exercised judgment, and the other has performed it, and no audit can tell them apart. From there, the episode specifies the four design requirements any AI governance framework must meet to keep human wisdom in authority over the machine: cultivate the conditions under which practice develops, require its exercise through load-bearing friction, preserve the institutional conditions that sustain it across careers, and surface signatures of its absence at the aggregate layers where artifact inspection cannot reach.
This is the audio edition of AI Governance and the Architecture of Practice, a whitepaper from Architecture & Attention, presented in three parts. Read the full whitepaper, explore the companion papers, and subscribe at jamesmaconochie.com.
Originally published on Substack.
