AIM Framework glossary
Assay-Regime Fidelity
Canonical definition
Assay-Regime Fidelity is the property whereby the AI Assay, the diagnostic instrument designed to detect whether artificial intelligence systems exhibit AIM-architecture-consistent behavioural signatures, possesses structural fidelity because the instrument shares the algebraic regime (non-Boolean, vector-space probability) it is designed to diagnose, making the assay's measurement framework natively compatible with the phenomena it measures rather than requiring translation between incompatible mathematical structures.
Explanation
Most psychological instruments face a translation problem: human cognition operates in one mathematical regime (potentially non-Boolean) while the measurement instrument assumes another (classical probability, Boolean logic). The Comfortable Opacity Thesis says the AI Assay avoids this problem because it is built on the same non-Boolean probability structure that characterises human Belief dynamics under Source Opacity. The assay doesn't need to translate non-Boolean phenomena into Boolean measurements, it operates natively in the same space. "Comfortable" is slightly ironic: the opacity that makes human self-knowledge architecturally difficult is the same opacity the assay is designed to detect, and because the assay shares the mathematical structure, it can detect the opacity without distorting it. See Quantum Epistemology (QE), Source Opacity, AI Assay.
Epistemic status
Framework-Specific Construct.
Derivation
Related terms
- AI Assay
- Quantum Epistemology
- Source Opacity
- AI Motivational Architecture