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Legitimacy as Pathway Authorization: Accountability, Proof Regimes, and Governance Under Consequence Pressure

The concluding conceptual phase of the AI Governance Master Project. The Sealed Card Protocol formalises what the implementation results demand: a legibility and accountability framework for governance decisions at the point where mediation becomes visible and proof-regimes must hold.

2026 · Final conceptualisation phase · Author and governance researcher

  • AI governance
  • legitimacy
  • traceability
  • research protocol
  • final conceptualisation
  • AI Governance Master Project
A governance research protocol focused on legitimacy, seams of mediation, and accountability under scrutiny.

Final conceptualisation phase

Research · Experimental Governance — last phase of conceptualisation

The Sealed Card Protocol analyzes what happens when mediation becomes visible and evaluation shifts from the artifact itself to the pathway that produced it.

That makes the protocol especially relevant to AI governance. It turns legitimacy, traceability, and proof-regime mismatch into practical questions of accountability rather than abstract debates about authenticity.