Irreversibility Threshold Review Requirement
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DCFB Core Constitutional AI
Every AI deployment decision that crosses a significant irreversibility threshold — where the cost of reversal exceeds the cost of continued deployment — must trigger an explicit governance review with named accountable authority and documented rationale. This threshold must be determined before deployment, not discovered after.
Origin
Derived from the Trust = Irreversibility Residue theoretical framework. Addresses the failure mode of discovering governance requirements at the point of crisis.
Applicability
Applies to all AI deployment decisions in production contexts where reversal would require significant resource expenditure or create downstream institutional dependencies.
Known objections
- Irreversibility thresholds are context-dependent and difficult to pre-specify universally.
- Named accountable authority may be unclear in distributed or federated deployment architectures.
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