Mechanism Analysis — Field Note 08: Gate Formation
An investigation into whether inspection, deployment and allocation form a repeatable causal architecture over frontier artificial-intelligence governance or merely describe adjacent controls.
Assessment
Verdict: D — Integrative framework useful; no single cross-gate mechanism established. The three gates are real and potentially integrative, but a settled causal sequence, complete decision-rights record and stable cross-domain process remain unestablished.
Research record: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21860649