[
  {
    "term": "Review Trigger",
    "definition": "A condition that automatically reopens evaluation of a previously approved decision. Instead of relying on someone to remember to check, the system fires when evidence shifts, time elapses, or context changes.",
    "essay": "The Official Record Is Late",
    "essayUrl": "https://kanav.net/writing/the-official-record-is-late/",
    "relevanceToAI": "Maps to automated monitoring and alerting for model drift, evidence change, and deployment condition shifts."
  },
  {
    "term": "Reliance Memory",
    "definition": "A record of who depended on a decision, when, and under what assumptions. When the underlying evidence changes, reliance memory tells you which downstream decisions are now stale.",
    "essay": "The Official Record Is Late",
    "essayUrl": "https://kanav.net/writing/the-official-record-is-late/",
    "relevanceToAI": "Critical for AI deployment governance: tracking which downstream systems and decisions depend on a model's outputs."
  },
  {
    "term": "Decision Maintenance",
    "definition": "The discipline of keeping decisions current after they are made. Most organizations treat decisions as events. Decision maintenance treats them as ongoing obligations.",
    "essay": null,
    "essayUrl": null,
    "relevanceToAI": "The operational discipline behind model re-evaluation, continuous monitoring, and evidence-triggered reconsideration."
  },
  {
    "term": "Evidence Dependency Graph",
    "definition": "A map of which conclusions depend on which sources. When a trial is retracted, a guideline updated, or a safety signal issued, the graph tells you exactly which downstream positions are affected.",
    "essay": null,
    "essayUrl": null,
    "relevanceToAI": "Directly applicable to tracing how changes in training data, evaluations, or benchmarks affect model behavior and deployed decisions."
  },
  {
    "term": "Constraint Realism",
    "definition": "Ethics is real only when it exists as a hard constraint on what actions remain available. Not defined by what a system claims to value, but by the profitable actions it has rendered impossible. If your ethics never blocks a profitable action, it is decorative.",
    "essay": "Toothless Ethics",
    "essayUrl": "https://kanav.net/writing/toothless-ethics/",
    "relevanceToAI": "Directly applicable to Constitutional AI: a safety principle that can't block a revenue-generating feature isn't a constraint."
  },
  {
    "term": "Care Subsidy",
    "definition": "The extraction of unpaid diligence from conscientious employees to bridge the gap between resource allocation and safety requirements. A system that depends on heroism to function safely is under-designed.",
    "essay": "Toothless Ethics",
    "essayUrl": "https://kanav.net/writing/toothless-ethics/",
    "relevanceToAI": "Applies to AI safety teams: if safe deployment depends on individuals manually catching failures, the system is under-designed."
  },
  {
    "term": "Governance by Attrition",
    "definition": "When a system manages scarcity not by saying 'no,' but by waiting for the applicant to give up. The delay itself is the denial — it just never has to be issued formally.",
    "essay": "Pending",
    "essayUrl": "https://kanav.net/writing/pending/",
    "relevanceToAI": "Describes the failure mode where AI systems wear down users through repeated friction instead of making explicit decisions."
  },
  {
    "term": "Asymmetric Irreversibility",
    "definition": "Modern institutions have automated the power to suspect, but not the power to exonerate. A fraud filter freezes an account in milliseconds; exoneration takes weeks of manual appeal. The asymmetry is the design flaw.",
    "essay": "If Every User Is a Potential Threat",
    "essayUrl": "https://kanav.net/writing/if-every-user-is-a-threat/",
    "relevanceToAI": "Core AI safety concern: automated decisions that are easy to make but impossible to reverse for the affected person."
  },
  {
    "term": "Error Survivability",
    "definition": "The degree to which a person can absorb or reverse a wrong decision before their life comes apart. In high-speed administrative systems, this is the real class divide — not access to rights, but capacity to survive their violation.",
    "essay": "You Don't Have the Right",
    "essayUrl": "https://kanav.net/writing/you-dont-have-the-right/",
    "relevanceToAI": "Measures how badly a wrong AI decision damages the person it affects — the metric that should drive rollback and correction urgency."
  },
  {
    "term": "Cognitive Scarcity",
    "definition": "A temporary drop in mental bandwidth caused by stress, fatigue, or distraction. Interfaces designed for the idealized 'hero user' break when the actual user is operating on 15% battery — biologically and technologically.",
    "essay": "How to Design for Cognitive Scarcity",
    "essayUrl": "https://kanav.net/writing/how-to-design-for-cognitive-scarcity/",
    "relevanceToAI": "Human factors constraint for AI safety UI: override and challenge interfaces must work when the operator is stressed, tired, or distracted."
  }
]