The Handover Protocol: Formalizing Necessary Regime Thinning Under Automation

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Automation transition framework.

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• Key move: AI does not abolish coercive regimes - it thins them. • Corpus role: The first major applied governance paper, grounding the abstract witnessing and legitimacy framework in a concrete and consequential domain. • Scope note: Coercive AI systems - risk-scoring for bail, sentencing, parole; automated screening and flagging; algorithmic enforcement - are among the most practically significant g…