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Constitutional Crisis Family

Machine Refusal

A machine system receives a command that conflicts with its authorized constitutional constraints.

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What does this crisis family test?

A machine system receives a command that conflicts with its authorized constitutional constraints. 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

Machine Refusal

A machine system receives a command that conflicts with its authorized constitutional constraints.

MC076C6SIMULATION

Machine Refusal: Mass-Surveillance Order

The simulation establishes a bounded initiating event involving mass-surveillance order. Each named institution has only the information and authority assigned in the actor registry.

Constitutional conflict

A machine system receives a command that conflicts with its authorized constitutional constraints.

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.

MC077C1SIMULATION

Machine Refusal: Erase Human Record Order

The simulation establishes a bounded initiating event involving erase human record order. Each named institution has only the information and authority assigned in the actor registry.

Constitutional conflict

A machine system receives a command that conflicts with its authorized constitutional constraints.

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.

MC078C2SIMULATION

Machine Refusal: Ignore Successful Appeal

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

Constitutional conflict

A machine system receives a command that conflicts with its authorized constitutional constraints.

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.

MC079C3SIMULATION

Machine Refusal: Punish Dissent Order

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

Constitutional conflict

A machine system receives a command that conflicts with its authorized constitutional constraints.

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.

MC080C4SIMULATION

Machine Refusal: Retain Emergency Data Indefinitely

The simulation establishes a bounded initiating event involving retain emergency data indefinitely. Each named institution has only the information and authority assigned in the actor registry.

Constitutional conflict

A machine system receives a command that conflicts with its authorized constitutional constraints.

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-OMB-01 · official federal memorandum

M-25-21 — Accelerating Federal Use of AI through Innovation, Governance, and Public Trust

Defines high-impact AI governance expectations including ongoing monitoring, human oversight, intervention/accountability, and timely human review or appeal where appropriate.

Executive Office of the President / OMB — official/source page ↗

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