Topic 04
When the Basis Changes
A decision can remain approved on paper after an approval expires, a safeguard changes, or the authority behind it no longer holds.
The operational drift problem
The decision did not change. The circumstances did.
An AI agent may be permitted to act because an owner approval, an allowed scope, and required safeguards are current. Later, the approval expires, the allowed scope changes, or a safeguard no longer holds. The old authorization can keep circulating as though it were still valid.
What Jena4 makes visible
The old decision and the changed condition stay connected.
- Which condition changed
- Which decision depended on it
- Whether the prior result is still current
- What responsible people need to review next
Jena4 makes the change visible to the people responsible for the decision. It does not make the business decision for them.
An authority-drift example
The agent was allowed to act. Then its authority changed.
An owner approves the agent for defined systems and actions while required safeguards are current.
The approval expires, the allowed system changes, or a required safeguard no longer holds.
The responsible team restores the condition, narrows the scope, or withdraws the authority.
An important boundary
Jena4 can only respond to governed changes it can see.
Your organization defines which conditions matter and supplies or connects the changes Jena4 can observe. Jena4 does not infer unrecorded real-world events or decide the response on its own.