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Before It Executes: Governance Moves Upstream of the Action | 08.19.26
Two new papers converge on the same structural claim from different directions: AI governance has to happen before an action executes, not after, and it has to be a hard gate rather than a score that a good track record can outweigh. One paper builds and adversarially tests a working pre-action authorization system, cutting a 74.6% social-engineering success rate to zero once the gate was in place. The other proves, formally, that compensatory risk scoring cannot guarantee legitimacy the way a non-negotiable structural constraint can. The same principle shows up institutionally this week: the…
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