What the AI does

1. Checking a chain of reasoning

You lay out the links you have. The AI checks whether the conclusion follows from them — and, where it does not, which link is doing work it cannot bear.

This is deliberately not fact-retrieval. The question is never "is this true because a model believes it" but "given these stated premises, does this conclusion hold, and what would have to be true for it to fail?"

That distinction is the whole point of Pillar 4. When a slice of the record is classified on purpose, the citizen's question is not can somebody confirm this — nobody can, by construction. It is does the part I have actually support the conclusion I am drawing, which is a question about logic, and a question a machine can help with honestly.

2. Reading long-form material against a published rubric

Sixteen qualification areas, hundreds of graded criteria with levels 1 to 10, all published before anybody was assessed against them.

The AI reads hours of somebody's own words and marks them against those criteria. Its value is consistency: the same rubric applied the same way to everybody, including to people the movement likes. That is a property a human panel cannot deliver at this volume, and it is the property that makes the result arguable rather than merely asserted.

The rubrics are written so people who disagree about policy can both do well: what earns a high mark is naming a mechanism and saying who pays, not landing on a preferred answer.

3. Applying your value system

Pillar 3. You write down your own rules for deciding this versus that; the AI applies those to real situations, at a scale you could never work through yourself.

The output is a recommendation consistent with your stated ethics, and you can see which of your rules produced it. If it produces something you hate, that is information about your rules, which is the point.

4. Summarising the month

The karma pass assembles the closed month, writes a narrative summary, notes standouts and integrity flags, and nominates entries for the history book. It is advisory only: it awards nothing and publishes nothing.

Every run leaves a trail

Runs write to dated directories with their inputs and outputs kept. A conclusion nobody can trace back to what was fed in is not evidence, and the movement does not get an exemption from its own standard.