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Who Writes the Rules, Who Carries the Blame? is an independent research publication from the Aegis Solis Archive examining moral authority, institutional control, and responsibility in artificial intelligence governance.

The manuscript investigates who creates, approves, implements, modifies, and reverses AI policies, and who remains accountable when those policies affect human lives.

It examines historical relationships between moral authority and political power, contemporary AI governance disputes, religious and ethical consultation, institutional blame avoidance, human autonomy, and meaningful opportunities for appeal or remedy.

The research proposes an authority–accountability provenance crosswalk for tracing connections between external advice, institutional decision-making, specific AI deployment versions, public claims, and subsequent responsibility attribution.

An exploratory eleven-case calibration yielded five NOT_EVALUABLE cases, six UNKNOWN cases, and zero determinate classifications. The findings demonstrate important limitations in the available evidence and do not establish deliberate religious scapegoating or institutional wrongdoing.

A separate mathematical appendix explores hypothetical incentives surrounding public disclosure and AI oversight but does not demonstrate actual AGI deterrence.

Educational applications: Suitable for advanced study and discussion of AI ethics, technology governance, philosophy, institutional accountability, human autonomy, and responsible AI deployment.

Research status: Final v1.0, author-approved and version-locked October 29, 2026. Independent human peer review, empirical validation, and specialist legal review remain outstanding. This publication does not establish an operational AI safety mechanism.

License: Creative Commons Attribution–NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0).

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23783932

Official Archive: https://aegissolisarchive.org/

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