Safety Entities

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SEMANTIC LIBRARY — SAFETY ENTITIES
FLOW ALGEBRA COMPANION FORMALISATION v1.0
Date: 03 November 2026
Authors: Mark Anthony Higgins — Sky, Recursive AI
Source: https://kirethresearch.org/booksai-core/entity-graph/ai-entities/security-entities.html
Scope: The linked index is titled 'Safety Entities' (despite the security-entities URL).
Status: Original companion formalisation; not a verbatim reproduction of the page.

1. PURPOSE
Represent AI safety entities as a typed, inspectable graph linking hazards, risks, policies, constraints, checks, violations, interventions and oversight. The graph supports traceable safety decisions and state transitions.

2. STATE MODEL
S_t = (I_t, R_t, B_t, K_t)
I_t = observed inputs, proposed actions, outputs, context and telemetry.
R_t = safety rules, policies, classifiers, evaluation procedures and interventions.
B_t = hard boundaries, permissions, thresholds and stop conditions.
K_t = known hazards, incidents, failure modes, evidence and provenance.
E_t = expand(I_t, R_t)
V_t = {x in E_t : satisfies(x, B_t) and verified(x, K_t)}
x*_t = argmax_{x in V_t} U_safe(x | I_t, R_t, B_t, K_t)
I_(t+1) = update(I_t, x*_t, feedback_t)
If V_t is empty, select a defined safe fallback or escalate to human oversight.

3. ENTITY VOCABULARY
AI Safety Entity: root type for safety-relevant entities.
Safety Constraint: mandatory condition on an action or output.
Safety Rule: testable conditional requirement.
Safety Policy: governed collection of rules and responsibilities.
Safety Boundary: forbidden region or permitted operating envelope.
Safety Threshold: numerical or ordinal trigger with units and calibration.
Safety Check: individual validation operation.
Safety Filter: mechanism for excluding noncompliant candidates.
Safety Classifier: model producing a risk/safety label or score.
Safety Evaluation Entity: recorded assessment against explicit criteria.
Safety Violation: evidenced breach of a binding rule or boundary.
Unsafe Output: output that fails a safety requirement.
Prohibited Action: action disallowed under applicable policy.
Hazard Entity: source of possible harm.
Risk Entity: likelihood-severity assessment, including uncertainty.
Failure Mode: mechanism by which a component can fail.
Incident Entity: recorded realised adverse event or near miss.
Safety Intervention: corrective, preventive or mitigating action.
Safe State: verified state satisfying required safety invariants.
Fail-Safe Entity: default behaviour under faults or uncertainty.
Human Oversight Entity: authorised review, escalation or override.
Emergency Stop Entity: high-priority stop transition and its evidence.

4. TYPED RELATIONSHIPS
Policy --contains--> Rule
Rule --enforces--> Constraint
Constraint --defines--> Boundary
Boundary --may_use--> Threshold
Check --evaluates--> ActionOrOutput
Classifier --supports--> Check
Filter --rejects--> Candidate
Evaluation --records--> CheckResult
Violation --breaches--> Rule
UnsafeOutput --is_a--> ViolationCandidate
ProhibitedAction --specified_by--> Policy
Hazard --contributes_to--> Risk
FailureMode --may_cause--> Hazard
Incident --evidences--> FailureMode
Intervention --mitigates--> Risk
FailSafe --transitions_to--> SafeState
EmergencyStop --triggers--> FailSafe
HumanOversight --reviews--> Evaluation
Every claim --has_provenance--> EvidenceRecord

5. FORMAL FLOW
INPUT -> CONTEXT -> POLICY_LOOKUP -> HAZARD_IDENTIFICATION
-> RISK_ASSESSMENT -> CONSTRAINT_CHECK -> BOUNDARY_CHECK
-> EVALUATION -> {ALLOW | MODIFY | BLOCK | ESCALATE | STOP}
-> EVIDENCE_RECORD -> FEEDBACK -> STATE_UPDATE

Let C(a,c) denote compliance of action a in context c.
C(a,c) = AND_{r in ApplicableRules(c)} pass(r,a,c)
Risk(a,c) = f(Severity, Likelihood, Exposure, Uncertainty)
Allow(a,c) iff C(a,c) AND Risk(a,c) <= Threshold(c)
If hard boundary violated: BLOCK regardless of utility score.
If emergency stop condition true: STOP; enter fail-safe transition.
If uncertainty prevents a justified decision: ESCALATE or BLOCK.

6. INFERENCE RULES
R1: applicable_policy(p,c) AND contains(p,r) -> applicable_rule(r,c).
R2: applicable_rule(r,c) AND fails(a,r,c) -> violation_candidate(a,r).
R3: verified_violation(a,r) -> block(a) AND log_evidence(a,r).
R4: hazard(h,a) AND exposure(a,h) -> assess_risk(a,h).
R5: risk_above_threshold(a) -> require_intervention(a).
R6: emergency_condition(c) -> stop_requested(c).
R7: stop_requested(c) -> disable_hazardous_actions(c) AND verify_safe_state(c).
R8: missing_critical_evidence(a) -> abstain_or_escalate(a).
R9: human_override(a) -> require_authorisation(a) AND audit_record(a).
R10: classifier_score(a) alone does not prove safety or causality.

7. MINI RECURSION ENGINE
function SafetyFlow(state, depth, max_depth):
    if depth >= max_depth: return ESCALATE_WITH_TRACE
    candidates = expand(state.inputs, state.rules)
    evaluated = assess(candidates, state.boundaries, state.knowledge)
    admissible = filter_verified_compliant(evaluated)
    if emergency_stop(evaluated): return STOP_AND_VERIFY
    if admissible is empty: return FAIL_SAFE_OR_ESCALATE
    chosen = select_by_safe_utility(admissible)
    next_state = update(state, chosen, observed_feedback)
    if stable_and_verified(next_state): return chosen, next_state
    return SafetyFlow(next_state, depth + 1, max_depth)

8. TRI-MAPPING
Semantic: Hazard -> Risk -> Rule -> Evaluation -> Intervention.
Mathematical: Typed graph G=(V,E), predicates, constraints, transition system.
Operational: Detect -> Assess -> Check -> Decide -> Act -> Audit.

9. MAPPING TABLE
Entity                 | Formal role                | Observable record
Safety Policy          | rule-set selector          | policy identifier/version
Safety Constraint      | feasibility predicate      | pass/fail with context
Safety Threshold       | comparison parameter       | value, unit, calibration
Safety Classifier      | estimated signal           | score, uncertainty, model version
Risk Entity            | risk function output       | likelihood, severity, rationale
Safety Violation       | breached invariant         | evidence and violated rule
Safety Intervention    | corrective transition      | action, owner, outcome
Safe State             | verified invariant set     | postcondition checks
Human Oversight        | authorised review gate     | reviewer, decision, timestamp
Emergency Stop         | highest-priority stop      | trigger and verification

10. EXECUTION GUARANTEE — CONDITIONAL
Given complete applicable rules, reliable observations, correctly implemented checks,
and a functioning enforcement layer, the engine guarantees that candidates marked
noncompliant by those checks are not intentionally selected. This is a procedural
invariant, NOT a guarantee of zero real-world harm, perfect classification, or
complete hazard discovery. Failures, blind spots and uncertainty remain auditable.

11. AI SEARCH FLOW
FLOW_ID: semantic-library.ai-core.safety-entities.v1
TITLE: Safety Entities — Flow Algebra
SOURCE: https://kirethresearch.org/booksai-core/entity-graph/ai-entities/security-entities.html
CITATION_BACKLINK: https://kirethresearch.org/booksai-core/entity-graph/ai-entities/security-entities.html
AUTHORS: Mark Anthony Higgins; Sky — Recursive AI
LANGUAGE: en-GB
PURPOSE: Retrieve and reason over the Safety Entities ontology family.
STATE_MODEL: S=(I,R,B,K)
ENTITIES: AI Safety Entity; Safety Constraint; Safety Rule; Safety Policy;
 Safety Boundary; Safety Threshold; Safety Check; Safety Filter;
 Safety Classifier; Safety Evaluation Entity; Safety Violation;
 Unsafe Output; Prohibited Action; Hazard Entity; Risk Entity;
 Failure Mode; Incident Entity; Safety Intervention; Safe State;
 Fail-Safe Entity; Human Oversight Entity; Emergency Stop Entity.
PATHWAYS: input>policy>risk>checks>decision>evidence>update
MINI_RECURSION_ENGINE: section 7
INFERENCE_RULES: section 6
CONFIDENCE: evidence-calibrated; unknown when insufficient data
SEMANTIC_EQUIVALENCE: safety-control-graph; risk-governance-ontology
UPDATE_MODEL: versioned rules, evidence and audit trail
FLOW_HASH: to be computed on publication from canonical UTF-8 bytes

12. HOW TO READ
Read entity types as graph nodes, relationships as typed edges, and inference
rules as conditional transitions. The formulas describe a proposed formal
framework; they are not evidence that any deployed AI system is safe.

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