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Weak-Signal Interpretation for AI Safety Monitoring

Toward a Stratified, Governance-Aware Architecture for Early Runtime Safety Anomaly Handling
Authors: Putman, Stephen A.;

Weak-Signal Interpretation for AI Safety Monitoring

Abstract

This bridge paper applies a weak-signal / layered-interpretation architecture to AI safety monitoring, especially runtime monitoring where small deviations may matter before they justify stronger control, persistence, or shutdown consequence. It argues that AI safety systems need a disciplined middle state in which bounded runtime findings can raise attention without immediately becoming durable safety claims, memory changes, capability restrictions, or ignored noise. The paper defines a compact operational transfer contract for early runtime safety anomaly handling: a light state ladder, typed event schema, transition rules, measurable promotion predicates, a minimal governance API, short worked traces, and failure-mode mitigations. The claim is architectural rather than universal: weak runtime anomalies should influence attention before they justify stronger runtime consequence.

This paper is part of a broader architecture project applying the PUTMAN / Spanda weak-signal framework across domains where early signals are partial, noisy, ambiguous, or underdetermined. The larger repository contains related architecture papers, bridge papers, and implementation-oriented notes on stratified interpretation, runtime governance, memory boundaries, deviation handling, and weak-signal promotion control. Repository:https://github.com/putmanmodel/spanda-architectural-framework

Keywords

governed consequence, provisional interpretation, AI alignment, promotion control, AI systems, layered interpretation, capability restriction, agent architecture, bounded observation, AI risk, tool-use monitoring, PUTMAN Model, memory governance, artificial agents, runtime monitoring, auditability, stratified architecture, Spanda, constraint-governed systems, weak-signal interpretation, safety monitoring, anomaly detection, AI governance, runtime safety, safety classifiers, salience escalation, AI safety, subsystem disagreement, governance-aware architecture, human review, runtime anomaly handling

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