Definition
The duty an institution takes on when it delegates consequential action: to notice, halt, reverse, and repair what the delegate does. The obligation is created by the delegation itself, not by the first incident.
It matters because delegating action also delegates the ability to be wrong at scale. Stating the obligation alongside the authority grant is what makes a shortfall in correction capacity visible before it is needed rather than during an incident.
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Tests that show it is in place
- Each grant states the corrections its holder owes: which harms, notified how, and which decisions, reversed by whom.
- Correction obligations are reviewed whenever the grant's scope or population changes.
- An obligation with no funded capacity behind it is recorded as an open governance risk.
Evidence to keep
- Artifact: A correction obligation clause on each grant, naming harms, owners, and clocks.
- Behavior: A scope increase blocked until the matching correction obligation was resourced.
- Metric: Count of stated obligations without a funded capacity owner.
References
- Laws for engineering delegated intelligence · Doctrine