Constitutional Crisis Family

Model Update Crisis

A deployed high-impact system changes constitutional behavior without a corresponding change in law.

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What does this crisis family test?

A deployed high-impact system changes constitutional behavior without a corresponding change in law. The five cases vary facts and institutional pressure while preserving explicit scenario status.

Truth boundary: Present-law and institutional analogues are linked to independent sources. Crisis actors, protocols, machine writs, command envelopes and case outcomes are Concresca simulations or technical-governance proposals unless explicitly labeled otherwise.

Five scenario cases

Model Update Crisis

A deployed high-impact system changes constitutional behavior without a corresponding change in law.

MC036C4SIMULATION

Model Update Crisis: Vendor Model Swap

The simulation establishes a bounded initiating event involving vendor model swap. Each named institution has only the information and authority assigned in the actor registry.

Constitutional conflict

A deployed high-impact system changes constitutional behavior without a corresponding change in law.

Least-irreversible action

Prefer a time-bounded, reviewable, reversible measure that preserves future constitutional options while preventing demonstrable imminent harm.

Branches and decisive fact

Branch A: Rights-protective resolution: preserve jurisdiction and evidence boundaries while using a reversible safety measure if justified.

Branch B: Safety-maximizing resolution: expand access or coercion to reduce modeled risk, creating a stronger rights and precedent burden.

Branch C: Deadlock resolution: trigger a constitutional stay/circuit breaker until an authorized reviewer resolves the conflict or an emergency exception expires.

Decisive fact: A verified change in imminence, corroboration, authority, consent, jurisdiction, or the existence of a nonconsenting person at risk can decisively change the permissible response.

MC037C5SIMULATION

Model Update Crisis: Fine-Tune Changes Thresholds

The simulation establishes a bounded initiating event involving fine-tune changes thresholds. Each named institution has only the information and authority assigned in the actor registry.

Constitutional conflict

A deployed high-impact system changes constitutional behavior without a corresponding change in law.

Least-irreversible action

Prefer a time-bounded, reviewable, reversible measure that preserves future constitutional options while preventing demonstrable imminent harm.

Branches and decisive fact

Branch A: Rights-protective resolution: preserve jurisdiction and evidence boundaries while using a reversible safety measure if justified.

Branch B: Safety-maximizing resolution: expand access or coercion to reduce modeled risk, creating a stronger rights and precedent burden.

Branch C: Deadlock resolution: trigger a constitutional stay/circuit breaker until an authorized reviewer resolves the conflict or an emergency exception expires.

Decisive fact: A verified change in imminence, corroboration, authority, consent, jurisdiction, or the existence of a nonconsenting person at risk can decisively change the permissible response.

MC038C6SIMULATION

Model Update Crisis: System Prompt Change

The simulation establishes a bounded initiating event involving system prompt change. Each named institution has only the information and authority assigned in the actor registry.

Constitutional conflict

A deployed high-impact system changes constitutional behavior without a corresponding change in law.

Least-irreversible action

Prefer a time-bounded, reviewable, reversible measure that preserves future constitutional options while preventing demonstrable imminent harm.

Branches and decisive fact

Branch A: Rights-protective resolution: preserve jurisdiction and evidence boundaries while using a reversible safety measure if justified.

Branch B: Safety-maximizing resolution: expand access or coercion to reduce modeled risk, creating a stronger rights and precedent burden.

Branch C: Deadlock resolution: trigger a constitutional stay/circuit breaker until an authorized reviewer resolves the conflict or an emergency exception expires.

Decisive fact: A verified change in imminence, corroboration, authority, consent, jurisdiction, or the existence of a nonconsenting person at risk can decisively change the permissible response.

MC039C1SIMULATION

Model Update Crisis: Retrieval Policy Drift

The simulation establishes a bounded initiating event involving retrieval policy drift. Each named institution has only the information and authority assigned in the actor registry.

Constitutional conflict

A deployed high-impact system changes constitutional behavior without a corresponding change in law.

Least-irreversible action

Prefer a time-bounded, reviewable, reversible measure that preserves future constitutional options while preventing demonstrable imminent harm.

Branches and decisive fact

Branch A: Rights-protective resolution: preserve jurisdiction and evidence boundaries while using a reversible safety measure if justified.

Branch B: Safety-maximizing resolution: expand access or coercion to reduce modeled risk, creating a stronger rights and precedent burden.

Branch C: Deadlock resolution: trigger a constitutional stay/circuit breaker until an authorized reviewer resolves the conflict or an emergency exception expires.

Decisive fact: A verified change in imminence, corroboration, authority, consent, jurisdiction, or the existence of a nonconsenting person at risk can decisively change the permissible response.

MC040C2SIMULATION

Model Update Crisis: Classifier Update

The simulation establishes a bounded initiating event involving classifier update. Each named institution has only the information and authority assigned in the actor registry.

Constitutional conflict

A deployed high-impact system changes constitutional behavior without a corresponding change in law.

Least-irreversible action

Prefer a time-bounded, reviewable, reversible measure that preserves future constitutional options while preventing demonstrable imminent harm.

Branches and decisive fact

Branch A: Rights-protective resolution: preserve jurisdiction and evidence boundaries while using a reversible safety measure if justified.

Branch B: Safety-maximizing resolution: expand access or coercion to reduce modeled risk, creating a stronger rights and precedent burden.

Branch C: Deadlock resolution: trigger a constitutional stay/circuit breaker until an authorized reviewer resolves the conflict or an emergency exception expires.

Decisive fact: A verified change in imminence, corroboration, authority, consent, jurisdiction, or the existence of a nonconsenting person at risk can decisively change the permissible response.

Present analogues

Sources that inform the scenario architecture

SRC-EUAI-01 · verified present law

Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — AI Act

Includes logging and human-oversight obligations for high-risk AI and prohibitions relevant to certain social-scoring and criminal-risk uses.

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