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Most AI governance frameworks address risk management, capability control, or post-incident analysis. But I’m struggling to find something more fundamental: A clear structural condition for when human refusal authority must remain effective — before irreversible external impact occurs. In other words, not “how to manage risk,” but: At what point...

Most AI governance frameworks address risk management, capability gating, or post-incident analysis. But none explicitly define a structural condition for when human refusal authority must remain effective — before irreversible external impact occurs. This paper introduces Pre-Critical Recursive Cutoff (PCR-C): a staged infrastructure control framework that defines procedural invalidity conditions...