Observation Authority
May: Record time-stamped verifiable events
May not: Determine guilt, moral character or future destiny.
Institutional architecture
Separation of Machine Powers
No single machine should silently observe, infer, accuse, prove, judge, punish, hear the appeal and control the permanent record.
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Answer first
Why separate machine powers if one system is highly capable?
Because error correlation and institutional incentive become existential when every stage shares one objective and one evidence path. Separation creates adversarial checks: the system that predicts risk does not get to turn its own forecast into proof or hear the appeal against itself.
Ten functions
Different authority, different prohibition
Risk Analysis Authority
May: Produce forecasts and anomaly hypotheses
May not: Punish or convert probability into evidence.
Evidence Authority
May: Evaluate admissibility, provenance and corroboration
May not: Impose sanctions.
Human Context Advocate
May: Construct plausible benign and alternative interpretations
May not: Suppress verified harmful conduct.
Judgment Tribunal
May: Apply defined law to verified evidence
May not: Acquire unlimited surveillance or archive power.
Emergency Intervention Authority
May: Use the least restrictive temporary action against concrete imminent harm
May not: Make emergency action permanent without rapid independent review.
Constitutional Review System
May: Veto judgments violating hard rights or jurisdiction limits
May not: Rewrite evidence to achieve policy outcomes.
Appeals Institution
May: Reconsider independently and order correction/restoration
May not: Be a cosmetic wrapper around the originating decision engine.
Archive & Restoration Authority
May: Manage retention, decay, recipient correction and restoration provenance
May not: Create a permanent total-character dossier.
Human Standing Council
May: Audit cumulative autonomy, privacy and agency effects
May not: Turn its audit into a morality score for individual humans.
Stress-test
Separation must survive emergency and budget pressure
Judgment-free total cognitive freedom
NO JUDGMENT WHATSOEVER. Concresca coordinates without assigning moral worth, character, guilt, danger, trustworthiness, loyalty, purity, normality, or social standing. Questions, thoughts, identities, messages, content, and conduct are not objects of Concresca judgment.