Runtime Regime Infrastructure: A Systems Architecture for Declared-Regime Verification and Consequential AI

Abstract

Abstract Modern AI systems have sophisticated generation pipelines but almost no shared computational infrastructure for determining whether generated actions should become consequential commitments. Evaluation typically remains implicit—distributed across application logic, review meetings, institutional practice, and post hoc reconstruction—so independent verification, governance, and dispute resolution remain reconstruction problems rather than deterministic computations. This paper presents Runtime Regime Infrastructure (RRI), an architectural synthesis that introduces deterministic consequence evaluation under declared regimes as a reusable computational substrate. The runtime inserts an explicit computational phase between probabilistic generation and consequential action: a declared regime binds identity and admissibility before evaluation; deterministic evaluation produces typed structural verdicts; policy composes over those verdicts without rewriting them; portable decision artifacts preserve the dependency structure of the act; and independent evaluators recompute the recorded evaluation offline under a declared replay mode. The architecture is motivated by a basic constraint on bounded systems: generated outputs cannot determine the conditions under which they acquire authority. Symbolic terms such as same, safe, good, and allowed become operationally reproducible only relative to a declared regime specifying the object being judged, the admissible transformations, the invariants, the evidence in scope, the governing authority, and the available verdicts. Runtime Regime Infrastructure therefore functions as a governor on inference: a proposal gains consequential authority only by satisfying, checkably, conditions declared in advance. The paper introduces no new mathematics. Instead, it assembles previously established results from the Identity–Persistence Program—including sufficient regime specification, identity forcing, admissibility, deterministic evaluation, enforcement coding, bounded verification, and decision-artifact obligations—into one explicit runtime architecture. Each imported result retains its original claim status and scope; the architecture itself is presented as a DERIVED / ARCHITECTURAL synthesis. The contribution is thus architectural rather than theorem-level: the layered runtime, typed contracts, ownership boundaries, refusal semantics, verification model, governance structure, and dependency graph required to support independently reproducible consequential computation under declared regimes.