Implementing AI
IMPLEMENTING AI Table of Contents Capability, Institutions, Infrastructure, Evidence, and Power Preface — Implementation Is a Coupled Selection Problem AI is not implemented by deploying a model. It is implemented by coupling a computational architecture to evidence, tools, infrastructure, institutions, capital, authority, physical resources, and consequences. Those elements interact without becoming interchangeable. The governing distinctions are: CAPABILITY ≠ VALIDITY VALIDITY ≠ AUTHORITY AUTHORITY ≠ TRUTH INFRASTRUCTURE ≠ SOVEREIGNTY but also: SEMANTIC PROCESS ↔ DEPLOYMENT CONDITIONS A useful theory must preserve both facts at once. Deployment cannot define truth. Deployment can determine what evidence is reachable, what validation is affordable, which actions are possible, and which architectures survive. PART I — THE IMPLEMENTED OBJECT 1. From Model to Operational Ecology The model ceases to be the unit of analysis Context, memory, retrieval, tools, search, external state, humans,...