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The principle that authority is external to intelligence. Intelligence describes a system’s capacity to reason, predict, and optimise. Authority describes permission to bind others, allocate shared resources, or establish precedent. These properties are orthogonal. In a mode-bounded system, authority is granted externally, scoped explicitly, and enforced procedurally—never inferred from competence.
A highly capable AI system correctly identifies the optimal allocation of hospital resources. But under MBI, the system cannot implement that allocation without external authority—no amount of reasoning quality permits it to exceed the authority of its current mode.
Section 4.2: Authority Is External to Intelligence