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Writing 72 on the Wall: Why Al Control Requires External Attestation

The Problem: The “Sticky Note”
Illusion of Al Safety

The Solution: Recomputable Hardware-
Grounded Attestation (“The Strip”)

EXTERNAL
ATTESTATION
STRIP

Internal Al logs cannot Software quality is Seif-authored logs Complete the three-part Universal drift constant Reduces fleet coordination
audit themselves mathematically undecidable are uninsurable control loop (KE = 0.003) overhead from O(n*2) to O(n)

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ACTUATOR SENSOR = A f
(Furnace) (Strip) Ke 0.003 v O(n 2) 7 O(n)
Internal Al logs cannot Software quality is Self-authored logs are Complete the three- Universal drift Reduces fleet coordination
audit themselves mathematically undecidable uninsurable part control loop constant (k, = 0.003) overhead from O(n*2) to O(n)
Evels and safety reports written Rice’s Theorem proves a system Insurers refuse liability policies Robust governance requires a Measures physical boundary Agents reading one shared map
inside the system boundary cannot verify its own sementic when evidence consists solely of Model (Set Point), Actuator crossings against pre-declared avoid exponential communication
fall to guarantee control. correctness from inside. the actor's own handwriting. (Furnace), and external Sensor execution lanes from immutable overhead and drift.
(Strip). commits.

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