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Should AI Control Live Outside the Model? A Case for Deterministic Authority

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A DEV Community post argues that billions spent on making large language models behave reliably may be aimed at the wrong target. The author proposes Artificial Deterministic Intelligence (ADI), which lets models reason freely while keeping decisions about permissions, policy, safety limits, and release conditions under deterministic, auditable rules controlled by people. The core claim is that the central AI safety problem is less about intelligence than about which system holds decision-making authority. The piece does not claim this approach makes models universally correct, only that it shifts who holds power over consequential choices. It closes by inviting technical objections, especially about which decisions should stay inside model inference.

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