
This technical report introduces structural impossibility as a missing safety layer in AI systems operating under irreversible risk. The work argues that post hoc governance mechanisms such as monitoring, auditing, and human review are insufficient where actions cannot be fully remediated after execution. The paper reframes AI safety as an architectural problem of representational state space design rather than a monitoring or compliance challenge. It proposes pre execution admissibility as a necessary condition for survivable autonomy in high stakes domains. This work is intended for AI system designers, governance engineers, safety researchers, and regulators evaluating deployment thresholds for autonomous and agentic systems.
State Space Design, AI Governance, Human Authority, Pre Execution Admissibility, Autonomous Systems, Safety Critical Systems, Agentic AI, Structural Impossibility, AI Safety, Irreversible Actions, High risk AI, Failure Prevention
State Space Design, AI Governance, Human Authority, Pre Execution Admissibility, Autonomous Systems, Safety Critical Systems, Agentic AI, Structural Impossibility, AI Safety, Irreversible Actions, High risk AI, Failure Prevention
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