Caroline S. Brooks
Decision Systems • Control Integrity • AI Governance

Automated systems don’t fail loudly.

They fail quietly—while appearing compliant.

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Frameworks for AI systems operating under irreversible consequences — defense, national security, and other high-stakes environments where authority, accountability, and meaning must survive automation, uncertainty, and time compression.

Most failures pass validation.

They meet requirements.

They follow process.

Then a decision lands in the real world — and no one can clearly explain who owned it, why it was made, or how it could have been stopped.

That is not a technical failure.

It is a failure of control integrity.

This work focuses on systems where:

  • decisions must be traceable
  • authority must be explicit
  • constraints must survive pressure
  • human judgment must be operational, not symbolic

I don’t optimize for speed, persuasion, or adoption. I optimize for decisions that remain defensible when questioned later.